Discussion
Hobbes is a/an ............
Answer: A
Hobbes is a nominalist.
In Leviathan (chapter 4) Hobbes argues that there is nothing universal in the world except names: a general word such as 'man' is a name applied to many individual things, and there is no universal thing or universal idea corresponding to it.
Conceptualism, the view that universals exist as general ideas in the mind, is associated with Locke and Abelard. Hobbes was a materialist, so not an idealist, and although he admired geometrical method, he grounded knowledge in sense and names rather than in innate ideas, so he is not classed as a rationalist.
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