This quantity provides 3 units of papers discussing the medieval challenge of singular cognition, nominalist epistemology, and the metaphysics of the good medieval nominalist thinker, John Buridan. the 1st crew of essays matters concerns surrounding the potential of singular cognition in mild of the cognitive psychology of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, in addition to the latter s argument from indifference as built by way of William Ockham to aid his personal, nominalist epistemology. despite the fact that, Ockham s epistemology, labored out intimately by means of John Buridan, turns out to have implications in regards to the chance of Demon Skepticism (later popularized by means of Descartes), which in flip poses a chance to the consistency of the nominalist cognitive psychology mostly, as mentioned within the moment team of essays. eventually, the 3rd crew of essays explores a few exciting, yet bizarre implications of the nominalist method of epistemology within the metaphysics of John Buridan.
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