Konstanty Michalski (1879–1947) was a Polish

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and

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Michalski was a member of an order of missionary priests. From 1918 he was a professor of philosophy at—from 1931 rector of—

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula, Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland un ...

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. From 1927 he was a member of the Polish Academy of Learning. Michalski was a leading Polish student of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

. The chief object of his studies was late, especially 14th-century,

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and

Nominalism In metaphysics, nominalism is the view that universals and abstract objects do not actually exist other than being merely names or labels. There are at least two main versions of nominalism. One version denies the existence of universalsthings ...

in Poland.

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*''Tomizm w Polsce na przełomie XV i XVI w.'' (

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at the Turn of the 15th and 16th Centuries; 1911) *''Odrodzenie nominalizmu w XIV w.'' (The Rebirth of Nominalism in the 14th Century; 1926)."Michalski, Konstanty," ''Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN'' (PWN Universal Encyclopedia), vol. 3, p. 104.

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*"Michalski, Konstanty," ''Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN'' (PWN Universal Encyclopedia),

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, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, vol. 3, 1975, p. 104. 1879 births 1947 deaths Academic staff of Jagiellonian University 20th-century Polish philosophers {{Poland-philosopher-stub

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