Best Overview of Nominalism on the Internet--An Intellectual History

[@niadean9518]

Thank you for the in depth analysis of Nominalism, which is inarguably the most pertinent issue of our time. Have a great day!:)

[@thinkculture6106]

Thank you! Glad you appreciate it--I think it went fairly well. It's really hard to just talk alone at a camera for an hour and try to remain organized and coherent. lol. But there is some stuff that's really good in here I think. I did forget to do several arguments I wanted to go through though, upon reflection. But it's okay. If anyone wants to talk more about them they can ask.

[@galek75]

Not the best vid you've made, as its quite sweeping in scope. Nonetheless I do recommend you do a vid series on Heidegger.

[@thinkculture6106]

Thanks! It is actually also super hard to do a video like this and make it not seem just like boring, rambling, and unfocused... lol Do you think I should stick to short videos? Like 5-10 minutes? There's like 30 topics in this video I could impromptu talk for longer than that about. So, that also means easier/quicker to produce content for sure.

[@galek75]

@@thinkculture6106 By "sweeping" I meant your reading of the history of philosophy as just nominalism, which borders on the edge of indefensibility. I actually do appreciate long-form content rather than short ones.

[@thinkculture6106]

@@galek75 Oh, wow. I don't think it's indefensible. Unorthodox. Like I said about Aristotle. But I would not say the entire history of philosophy is just about nominalism. Do you think metaphysics is fundamental, or no? The Problem of Universals is a central, perennial issue in metaphysics. I think the nominalism is a key through-line in the development of western philosophy, but I don't think it's everything. But if somebody wants to argue, like, we'd get the Reformation, British Empiricism, Hobbes, etc., without nominalism I think that's just plain wrong. And if you want to understand how we got where we are I think that should be understood. If you want to maybe do an episode with me and we can discuss it I think that might be really cool and I'd be up for it! But yeah it's unorthodox. But I don't think I'm wrong.