The nominalist distinction between reason's ability to understand the natural world and its inability to understand the divine world encouraged people to:
A)ignore the natural world.
B)contemplate God alone,as all important knowledge came through revelation.
C)understand the human world as a metaphor for the divine world.
D)understand the real world without reference to the supernatural.
E)look to universals in the world,which could provide some small insight into the divine world.

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Nominalism holds that only individual objects are real, and abstract concepts or universals are only names or labels we use to group objects together. Therefore, the only reality we can know is the individual objects of the natural world, and reason cannot lead us to knowledge of a divine world beyond perception. This encouraged people to focus on understanding the real world without reference to the supernatural.

The Nominalist Distinction Between Reason's Ability to Understand the Natural