Nicole Oresme: A Preliminary Study of Nominalist Influence on Early Modern Science
Abstract
This sentence from Alfred North Whitehead suggests a tremendous background of history and thought for an invest- igation such as that proposed in this study. For these words of Whitehead seem to imply the fundamental unity of human knowledge in theory, while indicating its simultan- eous plurality in practice. Therefore, in any inquiry into the conditions of early modern science and any intimation of its possible connection with that phase of philosophi- cal history called nominalism, it becomes inescapably evident that in some way our subject is involved with the entire development alike of science and philosophy. The scope of the problem and its consequent demands when thus stated appear overwhelming in perspective, but neverthe- less necessary to recognize even if not to attempt or to approximate in achievement.
Subject Area
Philosophy|Philosophy of Science|Metaphysics
Recommended Citation
Quick, Joan B, "Nicole Oresme: A Preliminary Study of Nominalist Influence on Early Modern Science" (1957). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28623311.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28623311
