Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Nominalism, Empiricism
26 Jan 2016
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When philosophers say platonism they generally are referring to a view of plato"s often called his theory of the forms . It involved over plato"s life, and involves both metaphysical claims and epistemological claims. We are looking at some arguments in an early dialogue, the phaedo. These absolutes, as the view develops, are called by plato forms . They exist at a different (higher) level of reality and things in this world partake of them. Epistemological: the senses are to be distrusted, true knowledge is an object comes to one who approaches it with the unaided intellect. And metaphysical: there are abstract entities, immaterial objects, there are universals. 1 doesn"t really have a name, though it"s sometimes just called platonism . 2 is often called realism (though that has others meanings in philosophy as well). The opposite of 2 is nominalism , a word sometimes used to name the denial of 1 as well.
