>he thinks Aristotle was a nominalist>i.e. the mind thinks of nothing but its own creationimagine turning Aristotle into a solipsist and a representationalist lmaoooocouldn't be me
>>24749281Aristotle may not have been a nominalist but I am an Aristotelian nominalist.
>>24750184Fair. Why does the mind create stuff out of thin air and only understands its own creations?
>>24750478nominalism asserts that only particulars exist. that is the opposite of particulars not being real and being only creations of the mind. your understanding of nominalism is based entirely on your 'realist' preconceptions. you think that everything is a generality or at least that the mind can only know or conceive of generality, hence you equate the denial of the existence of generalities to the proposition that everything the mind knows is made up. But the mind is in fact capable of knowing particulars, and all knowledge is knowledge of particulars, because universals do not exist.
>>24749281I'm an om nom nominalist coz I'm a hungry boi
>>24749281I’m reading the theological origins of modernity by Gillespie which details the nominalist revolution and it all sounds like a crock of shit just to spite Aristotle for having been saved from historical loss by Muslims while trying to protect Gods omnipotence. Denial of universal realism spawned 400 years of strive and gave us our gay modern zeitgeist. I see no reason to deny the existence of platonic forms and their structuring of the cosmos and ideas.
>>24750594you lost. get over it.
>>24750594>while trying to protect Gods omnipotenceSuch is Abrahamist folly.
>>24749281Aristotle wasn't even a real person.
>>24750671based
I wonder if nominalism is more prevalent among those with aphantasia than otherwise.
