Note 16 — Chapter XX · (continued 2)
R. G. (Robin George) Collingwood translation
L'Autobiografia, il carteggio e le poesie varie, ed. Croce, pp. 4-5. Mauthner's assertion (Beiträge zu einer Kritik der Sprache, Berlin, 1901, ii. 497-8) that Vico was a nominalist and that the great discoveries of the Scienza Nuova were due to his nominalism, is quite arbitrary and not founded correctly on his autobiography.