Nominalism

Since all sorcery first requires a state of liminality in its targets, much like electricity requires conductivity, a basic first step in political sorcery is to scramble the sense of identity of the masses.

Nominalist empiricist doctrine is custom-made for this.

As Carlson's guest J. Dyer put it, Luther's nominalism led to trunes, transvestites.

The rationalist oppression by authoritarianism is relatively simple and honest.

The first position is the position that ultimately won in the Middle Ages.

This position is called nominalism from the Latin word names.

Nominalism, and again, you may find this strange that Catholics came up with this position, given how patently unmystical it is, but nominalism says, no, categories are merely names, they exist in the mind and nowhere else, and language is fundamentally inadequate, and reasoning about the divine can only ultimately be done through faith.

So you cannot, in language, capture the nature of the divine, and categories are fundamentally just words.

Nominalism.

That's a position that largely won through the Middle Ages.

Now, the opposite position is a position that I imagine that maybe folks in this room may be a bit more friendly to, and this is a position called realism.

Moreover, he was a nominalist.

Nominalism, the first form of materialism, is chiefly found among the English schoolmen.

The real progenitor of English materialism is Bacon.

To him, natural philosophy is the only true philosophy, and physics based upon the experience of the senses is the chiefest part of natural philosophy.