The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with any extraordinarily lofty appreciation of the powers of the human soul, yet it attributes to it a power of originating a kind of ideas the like of which Omnipotence has failed to create as real objects, and those general conceptions which men will never cease to consider the glory of the human intellect must, according to any consistent nominalism, be entirely wanting in the mind of Deity.


Lecture II : The Universal Categories, §3. Laws: Nominalism, CP 5.62 - Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)

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The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with ...

The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with ...

The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with ...

The third category of which I come now to speak is precisely that whose reality is denied by nominalism. For although nominalism is not credited with ...