Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Scotist realism, sometimes called Scotist formalism, is the Scotist position on the problem of universals. This position emerged as a response to what was called the "problem of universals", which was an ancient problem in metaphysics about whether universals exist. For John Duns Scotus, a Franciscan philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest, universals such as "greenness" and "goodness" exist in reality. This is opposed to the later conceptualism of William of Ockham, and the earlier views of Abelard and others, which say universals exist only within the mind and have no external or substantial reality."@en }
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- Scotistic_realism abstract "Scotist realism, sometimes called Scotist formalism, is the Scotist position on the problem of universals. This position emerged as a response to what was called the "problem of universals", which was an ancient problem in metaphysics about whether universals exist. For John Duns Scotus, a Franciscan philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest, universals such as "greenness" and "goodness" exist in reality. This is opposed to the later conceptualism of William of Ockham, and the earlier views of Abelard and others, which say universals exist only within the mind and have no external or substantial reality.".