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Plurality and Continuity - An Essay in G.F. Stout's Theory of Universals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
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Plurality and Continuity - An Essay in G.F. Stout's Theory of Universals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)
Series: Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, 21
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by D. M. Armstrong In the history of the discussion of the problem
of universals, G. F. Stout has an honoured, and special. place. For
the Nominalist, meaning by that term a philosopher who holds that
existence of repeatables - kinds, sorts, type- and the indubitable
existence of general terms, is a problem. The Nominalist's
opponent, the Realist, escapes the Nominalist's difficulty by
postulating universals. He then faces difficulties of his own. Is
he to place these universals in a special realm? Or is he to bring
them down to earth: perhaps turning them into repeatable properties
of particulars (universalia in res), and repeatable relations
between universals (universalia inter res)? Whichever solution he
opts for, there are well-known difficulties about how particulars
stand to these universals. Under these circumstances the Nominalist
may make an important con cession to the Realist, a concession
which he can make without abandoning his Nominalism. He may concede
that metaphysics ought to recognize that particulars have
properties (qualities, perhaps) and are related by relations. But,
he can maintain, these properties and relations are particulars,
not universals. Nor, indeed, is such a position entirely closed to
the Realist. A Realist about universals may, and some Realists do,
accept particularized properties and relations in addition to
universals. As Dr. Seargent shows at the beginning of his book. a
doctrine of part icularized properties and relations has led at
least a submerged existence from Plato onwards. The special,
classical."
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