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Article: Jaffa, nominalism, and the fate of the common noun.(Harty Jaffa)
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- Perspectives on Political Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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For although it be necessary for the truth of a cognition that the cognition answer to the thing known, still it is not necessary that the mode of the thing known be the same as the mode of its cognition.
--Aquinas, ctd. in Veatch 1954, 51
So long as there is a dispute between nominalism and realism ... a man as he gradually comes to feel the profound hostility of the two tendencies will, if he is not less than man, become engaged with one or other and can no more obey both than he can serve God and Mammon.
--Peirce 1992a, 104
Harty Jaffa is among the most important philosophers in the land. Jaffa's prominence stems from his insistence, ...