A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers
A Dictionary of Philosophy in the Words of Philosophers
John Radford Thomson
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128. The whole controversy of Nominalism and Conceptualism is founded on the ambi- guity of the terms employed. The oppo- site parties are substantially at one. Had we, like the Germans, different terms, like Begriff and Anscliauung, to denote differ- ent kinds of thought, there would have been as little difference of opinion in re- gard to the nature of general notions in this country as in the Empire. With us. Idea, Notion, Conception, &c. , are con- founded, or applied by different philosoph...ers in different senses. — Note to Reid's ' Works, ' p. 412. John S. Mill says of this that while Hamilton's ' general mode of thought and habitual phraseology are purely Concep- tualist, ' his doctrine is that of 'pure Nomi- nalism. ' — ' Examination of Hamilton, ' chap, xvii. The Difficulty of Conceptualism. Conceptualism is bound to show — if she would make good her scheme — that just as the particular cognitions stand distinct from the general cognitions, so the latter stand distinct from the former.
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