One of Peter Abelard's Greatest Intellectual Accomplishments Was to

question 39

Multiple Choice

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.

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