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>The chief proponent of this philosophical revolution was William of Ockham
Just to prove that the Slippery slope applies to Nominalism:
Ockham, when responding to Porphyry's questions in the Isagoge about universals – whether they exist beyond sensible reality, whether they are corporeal or incorporeal, etc. –, denied universal essences, that is, the intrinsic properties shared by different entities. According to Thomist metaphysics, essence is composed of the union of matter and form, defining being in its entirety. Ockham, however, adopted a radical particularism that would give rise to all modernity. For this reason, he is considered the father of the separation between faith and reason, theology and philosophy. For Ockham, it is only possible to have knowledge of what is singular, that is, of what exists in concrete reality. Thus, knowledge of singularity cannot be combined with what is abstract.
All modern philosophy emerges from this perspective. It also gives rise to scientism, which claims that the experimental-mathematical-deductive method is the only objective means of knowledge. The philosophical empiricism of Hobbes, who was a nominalist, followed this same line, as did Pierre Gassendi. This thought reached the 20th century with Richard Rorty and the affirmation of the contingency of linguistic constructions in opposition to the real existence of absolute and eternal foundations of reality.
It was in this context that post-structuralism emerged, which denies essence by arguing that matter and form are, above all, shaped by relations of both language and power. They are structures shaped by what Foucault called knowledge-power.
Second-wave feminism, Critical race theory, Gender ideology, etc... are not Marxism. Quite the contrary, it comes from French post-structuralist philosophy, especially from the 1960s, which continues an anti-essentialist trend in modern philosophy.