| That means the status of strings in string theory in physics can become a philosophical topic by way of discussions of realism and nominalism. |
| It is the first protest of nominalism against the doctrine of an extreme Realism. |
| Rosmini, in an elaborate criticism, complains that Stewart did not perceive the inevitable tendency of nominalism to materialism. |
| This extreme of nominalism for which predication is impossible is, however, compromised by two concessions. |
| His approach is broadly nominalistic, but Buridan's nominalism is more of a parsimonious way of doing philosophy than a doctrine about universals. |
| Traditional, central, philosophical debates, such as those between realism and nominalism in regard to universals, are purportedly deflated by Wittgensteinian approaches. |
