Ist Thomas Hobbes Ultranominalist gewesen?

Studia Leibnitiana 9 (1):77 - 100 (1977)
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Leibniz' formula 'plusquam nominalis' is not applicable to Hobbes' theory of truth. Nor do his remarks on the relationship between thought and reality or between nomenclature and reality lead to ultranominalism. That would be the case only in his new definition of the relationship between name and concept; and in his thesis 'there is nothing universal but names' there is indeed a rejection of the Ockhamistic tradition of realistic conceptualism' (Boehner). Hobbes, however, does not succeed in constructing his logic without the help of general concepts. This disparity between the programm and its realization can perhaps best be characterized as a 'dissimulated conceptualism'.

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