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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

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).

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Series
Focus series, Focus series (Westview Press)

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

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Pagination
xii, 148 p. :
Number of pages
148

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2211958M
ISBN 10
0813307635, 0813307724
LCCN
89034723

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