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Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
148

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Subjects

Universals (Philosophy), Nominalism, Realism, Universaux, Nominalisme, Réalisme, Universalien, Einführung, Realismus, Nominalismus, Universalia (filosofie), Universaux (philosophie)

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Table of Contents

Preface
Page xi
1. The Problem
Page 1
I. Introduction
Page 1
II. Class Nominalism
Page 8
III. Theories
Page 14
IV. Methodology
Page 18
2. Primitive Natural Classes
Page 21
I. How Is It Determined that a Class is Natural?
Page 21
II. Degrees of Naturalness
Page 23
III. The Coextension Problem
Page 25
IV. Wolterstorff's Argument from the Identity Conditions of Classes
Page 27
V. Types Determine Classes, Not Classes Types
Page 27
VI. The Causal Argument
Page 28
VII. The Problem About Relations
Page 29
VIII. Higher-Order Types
Page 32
IX. The Appartatus of the Natural Class Theory
Page 36
3. Resemblance Nominalism
Page 39
I. Properties of Resemblance
Page 39
II. That Resemblance Is an Internal Relation and the Consequences of This
Page 43
III. Constructing a Resemblance Class
Page 47
IV. Identity Conditions for Classes Are No Problem
Page 48
V. Does Resemblance Determine Type?
Page 49
VI. The Causal Argument
Page 49
VII. The Coextension Problem Again
Page 50
VIII. Relations
Page 51
IX. Higher-Order Types
Page 52
X. The Resemblance Regress
Page 53
XI. The Apparatus of the Resemblance Theory
Page 57
4. Particulars as Bundles of Universals
Page 59
I. Substance-Attribute Versus Bundle Theories
Page 59
II. The Identity of Indiscernibles
Page 64
III. Problems of Constructing the Bundle
Page 70
IV. A Further Problem with Compresence
Page 72
V. Can Universals Be the Substance of the World?
Page 73
5. Universals as Attributes
Page 75
I. Uninstantiated Universals?
Page 75
II. Disjunctive, Negative, and Conjunctive Universals
Page 82
III. Predicates and Universals
Page 84
IV. States of Affairs
Page 88
V. A World of States of Affairs?
Page 93
VI. The Thin and the Thick Particular
Page 94
VII. Universals as Ways
Page 96
VIII. Multiple Location
Page 98
IX. Higher-Order Types
Page 99
X. The Formal Properties of Resemblance
Page 102
XI. Resemblance Between Universals
Page 103
XII. The Fundamental Tie
Page 108
XIII. The Apparatus of an Attribute Theory of Universals
Page 111
6. Tropes
Page 113
I. Substances Versus Bundles
Page 113
II. States of Affairs Again
Page 116
III. Tropes and the Problem of Universals
Page 119
IV. Tropes as Substitutes for Univerals
Page 121
V. A Trope Substitute for the Resemblance of Universals
Page 122
VI. Trope Nominalism Versus "Regular" Nominalism
Page 125
VII. Bundles Versus Substance-Attribute Again
Page 127
VIII. Natural Classes of Tropes Versus Resemblances
Page 128
IX. Swapping of Tropes
Page 131
X. Tropes with Universals
Page 132
7. Summing Up
Page 135
References
Page 141
Index
Page 145

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).

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Series
Focus series, Focus series (Westview Press)

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
111/.2
Library of Congress
B105.U5 A74 1989, B105.U5A74 1989

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 148 p. :
Number of pages
148

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OL2211958M
Internet Archive
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0813307635, 0813307724
LCCN
89034723
OCLC/WorldCat
654819542, 20131286
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4066775
1219624

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