Author Question: The debate between the realists and nominalists A. was settled by a church council in 1215. B. ... (Read 5 times)

vinney12 · **on:** Sep 28, 2018

The debate between the realists and nominalists

A. was settled by a church council in 1215.
B. centered on the issue of universals.
C. arose from attempts to reconcile Arabic thought and Christian beliefs.
D. was fought between the papacy and scholarly monks.

Question 2

One of Peter Abelard's greatest intellectual accomplishments was to

A. divorce scholarship from church teachings.
B. champion a moderate realism that held that the universals existed, but only as mental concepts and devices.
C. undermine the Aristotelian ideas that had dominated learning in the earlier Middle Ages.
D. create a convincing argument for an extreme realism that completely rejected universals.