Medieval Nominalists and Realists arguing over the meaning of classes of things and individual things were continuing a philosophical debate begun by

A) Plato and Aristotle.
B) Boethius and Cassiodorus.
C) Constantine the African and Adelard of Bath.
D) Cicero and Virgil.
E) John of Salisbury and Bernard of Chartres.


Answer: A

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