"Conceptualism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The Realists held with Plato,—but not in his name, for they, too, claimed to be Aristotelian, and preminently so,—that the ideal must precede the actual. So far they were right. This was their strong point. Their error lay in claiming for the ideal an objective reality, an independent being. Conceptualism was only another statement of Nominalism, or, at most, a question of the relation of language to thought. It cannot be regarded as a third issue in this controversy,— a controversy in which more time was consumed, says John of Salisbury, "than the Caesars required to make themselves masters ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various |
