Realism and nominalism in the project of Muhammad Muhammad Yunus al-Linguani.

Abstract

Abstract:
Realism and nominalism are two ontological doctrines related to universals. The problem of universals preoccupied philosophers in the past، because it relates to perceptions and ideas and is reflected in knowledge.
In the eyes of the realists، it is the totality that has a realistic existence، and it is the existence of a sublime difference that is higher than the particular. As for the nominalists، on the contrary، they see that the total is just a word that is formed only by its realizations in reality. For them، the real existence is the partial، and between these two doctrines the conceptual doctrine mediates.
Dr. Muhammad Muhammad Yunus Ali is considered one of the most important futurists of modern linguistics in the Arab world، especially in the field of pragmatics، or as he calls it the “science of communication”، as his studies in this field are among the most important pioneering efforts that sought to root pragmatic thought in the Islamic heritage. With his theses، the researchers began to look forward - with confidence - to the presence of an “Islamic rhetoric” in our heritage.
This study proceeds from the standpoint of the presence of the duality of “nominalism and realism” in Muhammad Muhammad Yunus Ali’s project، given that both tendencies have an impact on the nature of linguistic thought in general and discourse thought in particular. It is based on an ontological position that controls its path، whether this orientation is related to the language system، as with Saussure and his successors، or related to language in the case of use، as with the analytical philosophers and after them the pragmatics.
Perhaps this duality was present in the system of Islamic heritage، as Dr. Yunus’s readings of the Islamic heritage were based on this premise، as the “collegial position” constitutes a key to entering into the linguistic theory of our ancestors. In the Islamic heritage of linguistic theories in the West، and for this reason it was a prudent reading to confirm the authenticity of the linguistic theory of the Arabs، as well as its ability to remove confusion from many things in our rich heritage.