Answer | Crossword Clue |
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presentationism | the doctrine of immediate cognition of objects |
realism | theory that objects of sense perception or cognition exist independently of the mind compare nominalism |
nominalism | The doctrine that universals or general ideas are mere names without any corresponding reality, and that only particular objects exist; properties, numbers, and sets are thought of as merely features of the way of considering the things that exist. Important in medieval scholastic thought, nominalism is associated particularly with William of Occam |