"Lonergan was aware of the imputation that Newman was a nominalist.. '...he defends Newman...imputation of nominalism may be thus explained away, especially as Newman was not a professional philosopher...'(65) How then to understand Lonergan's early claim of nominalism?"

Lonergan was aware of the imputation that Newman was a nominalist, and ironically in the light of his own self-definition, in "True Judgment and Science" he defends Newman from that attribution.

That the distinction between notional and real apprehension has a foundation in fact is beyond doubt...It seems... to be one of degree and not coincident with the scholastic distinction of intellectual and possible apprehension inasmuch as its differentiae are quantity of content, direction of attention, and the presence or absences of a sense of reality or value. I am not aware of the impossibility [of] a distinction being made upon such grounds between different apprehensions of the same object. The imputation of nominalism may be thus explained away, especially as Newman was not a professional philosopher and intellectual apprehensions are a theory and not an experience. ⁽⁶⁵⁾

How then to understand Lonergan's early claim of nominalism? [https://lonergan.org/online_books/Liddy/chapter_two_john_henry_newman.htm#N_64_]