----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
> Agreed. I did recently coin a slogan to the effect that Nominalism
is a
> useful tool but a vicious master.
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Perhaps nominalism will get us beyond masters precisely to the extent
we don't allow it to become and ism. It's a tool for cognitive jujitsu
that frustrates the desire to dominate by demonstrating the ultimately
futility of attempting it.
Ian