title: Wilfrid Sellars, Idealism, and Realism: Understanding Psychological Nominalism
author: Patrick J. Reider
description: <b>Patrick J. Reider</b> is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, USA.
zlib_text: THE QUO/QUOD FALLACY
  IN THE DISCUSSION OF REALISM
  by 
  John Deely
  University of St Thomas, Houston
  Part I, Czlowiek w Kulturze 19 (2007), 389–425; 
  Part 2, Czlowiek w Kulturze 20 (2008), 289–316.
  
  1 Czlowiek w Kulturze 191 
  John Deely 
  University of St Thomas, Hooston, USA 
  The Quo/Quod Fallacy in the Discussion 
  of Realism (Part One) 
  1. Setting the Stage 
  Philosophers of the Latin Agel distinguished between ens reale and 
  ens rationis, meaning what exists in our awareness also independently 
  of it and what exists but only dependently upon and within our aware-
  ness. They took little interest in the latter except in what concerns logic 
  as a subject matter and instrument of thought for. the advancement 
  of knowledge of reality as ens reale~ When philosophy transitioned 
  from Latin to the national languages of modern times, especially 
  French, German, and English, a new terminology developed, but the 
  modem development in the old terminology amounted to this: that 
  ens reale, things in 