Sentence:  These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, "<WSD>transcendentals</WSD>" (often called the "universals") because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being.96 A quarrel over these <WSD>transcendentals</WSD> even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these <WSD>transcendentals</WSD> was real or intellectual (also called nominal). 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Any one of the three "transcendental properties of being": truth, beauty or goodness, which respectively are the ideals of science, art and religion and the principal subjects of the study of logic, aesthetics and ethics.