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Old 09-09-2004, 10:56 AM   #57 (permalink)
asaris
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Just an off-topic point roachboy, but you're misusing the term 'nominalism'. Nominalism is, quoting www.philosophypages.com (because I suck at giving definitions),
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nominalism: Belief that only particular things exist, as opposed to realism. Nominalists hold that a general term or name {Lat. nomine} is applied to individuals that resemble each other, without the need of any reference to an independently existing universal. Prominent representatives of this view include Ockham, Berkeley, and Goodman.
To the best of my knowledge, no Christian thinker has ever asserted that the human mind can comprehend God; the argument about our knowledge of God has centered around whether it's equivocal (what we mean when we say 'God is good' is not the same as what me mean when we say 'Bill Clinton is good'.) or univocal (when we say 'God is good' we mean the same thing as when we say 'Bill Clinton is good').
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