Similar to “Newspeak”- Orwell’s 1984- the modern logic or the nominalism people employ in our time seeks to shrink language rather than expanding it. They discard the great Socratic question of the “what”, the essence. If we cease to say a thing, we soon cease to think it, for there will be no holding-places in our language for the thought.
We can not accept so readily that nominalism is the way forward and also believe that monkeys could have evolved by natural selection from nominalism. Truly illogical.
Nominalism (usually attributed to William of Ockham) is the doctrine that holds, interestingly, that universals are human constructs, merely names without any corresponding reality.
G. K. Chesterton refuted nominalism with his usual wit when he argued, “If [as the nominalist says] all chairs were quite different you could not call them ‘all chairs’?” -Orthodoxy
On the other hand, we ought to employ Aristotelian logic which begins with “the first act of the mind”, the act of understanding a universal, a nature, or an essence, such as the nature of “apple” or “man”. Therefore, we can know what man is (image bearers of the Triune God), what man isn’t (brutes), and any perversions of man (trans humanism, transgenderism, etc..).
