Editing Nominalism (section)

===Modern and contemporary philosophy===
In [[modern philosophy]], nominalism was revived by [[Thomas Hobbes]]<ref name=SEP>{{cite book| chapter-url = http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes/| title = Thomas Hobbes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)| chapter = Thomas Hobbes| date = 2022| publisher = Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> and [[Pierre Gassendi]].<ref>{{cite book| chapter-url = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/gassendi/| title = Pierre Gassendi (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)| chapter = Pierre Gassendi| date = 2014| publisher = Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref>

In [[contemporary philosophy|contemporary]] [[analytic philosophy]], it has been defended by [[Rudolf Carnap]],<ref name=:0>{{cite web| url = https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/resemblance-nominalism-a-solution-to-the-problem-of-universals/| title = "Review of Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, ''Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals''" – ndpr.nd.edu| date = 7 February 2004| last1 = MacBride| first1 = Fraser}}</ref> [[Nelson Goodman]],<ref>{{cite web| url = https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goodman/supplement.html| title = "Nelson Goodman: The Calculus of Individuals in its different versions", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref>  [[H. H. Price]],<ref name=:0/> and [[D. C. Williams]].<ref>[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/williams-dc/ Donald Cary Williams, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy].</ref>

Lately, some scholars  have been questioning what kind of influences nominalism might have had in the conception of [[modernity]] and contemporaneity. According to [[Michael Allen Gillespie]], nominalism profoundly influences these two periods. Even though modernity and contemporaneity are secular eras, their roots are firmly established in the sacred.<ref name="gillespie">{{cite book |last1=Gillespie |first1=Michael Allen |title=The Theological Origins of Modernity |date=2008 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0226293516}}</ref> Furthermore, "Nominalism turned this world on its head," he argues. "For the nominalists, all real being was individual or particular and universals were thus mere fictions."<ref name="gillespie"/>

Another scholar, Victor Bruno, follows the same line. According to Bruno, nominalism is one of the first signs of rupture in the medieval system. "The dismembering of the particulars, the dangerous attribution to individuals to a status of totalization of possibilities in themselves, all this will unfold in an existential fissure that is both objective and material. The result of this fissure will be the essays to establish the [[nation state]]."<ref name="Bruno">{{cite book |last1=Bruno |first1=Victor |date=2020 |title=A Imagem Estilhaçada: Breve Ensaio sobre Realismo, Nominalismo e Filosofia |publisher=Editora ViV |location=Rio de Janeiro |isbn=978-6588972021}}</ref>