It evolved from the thesis of Aristotle that all reality consists of individual things.
It evolved from the thesis of Aristotle that all reality consists of individual things. During medieval times, its proponents debated against the realists, spawning an intermediate theory known as conceptualism. This philosophy holds that abstractions known as universals that are without essential or substantive reality, and that only individual objects have real existence. FTP, identify this medieval Scholastic doctrine that comes from the Latin for "of or pertaining to names."
It evolved from the thesis of Aristotle that all reality consists of individual things.
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