An edition of Universals
(1989)
Universals
an opinionated introduction
by D. M. Armstrong
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"The author turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class? Professor Armstrong carefully sets out six major theories--ancient, modern, and contemporary--and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each. Recognizing that there are no final victories or defeats in metaphysics, Armstrong nonetheless defends a traditional account of universals as the most satisfactory theory we have."--Publisher.
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Table of Contents
Preface
1. The Problem
I. Introduction
II. Class Nominalism
III. Theories
IV. Methodology
2. Primitive Natural Classes
I. How Is It Determined that a Class is Natural?
II. Degrees of Naturalness
III. The Coextension Problem
IV. Wolterstorff's Argument from the Identity Conditions of Classes
V. Types Determine Classes, Not Classes Types
VI. The Causal Argument
VII. The Problem About Relations
VIII. Higher-Order Types
IX. The Appartatus of the Natural Class Theory
3. Resemblance Nominalism
I. Properties of Resemblance
II. That Resemblance Is an Internal Relation and the Consequences of This
III. Constructing a Resemblance Class
IV. Identity Conditions for Classes Are No Problem
V. Does Resemblance Determine Type?
VI. The Causal Argument
VII. The Coextension Problem Again
VIII. Relations
IX. Higher-Order Types
X. The Resemblance Regress
XI. The Apparatus of the Resemblance Theory
4. Particulars as Bundles of Universals
I. Substance-Attribute Versus Bundle Theories
II. The Identity of Indiscernibles
III. Problems of Constructing the Bundle
IV. A Further Problem with Compresence
V. Can Universals Be the Substance of the World?
5. Universals as Attributes
I. Uninstantiated Universals?
II. Disjunctive, Negative, and Conjunctive Universals
III. Predicates and Universals
IV. States of Affairs
V. A World of States of Affairs?
VI. The Thin and the Thick Particular
VII. Universals as Ways
VIII. Multiple Location
IX. Higher-Order Types
X. The Formal Properties of Resemblance
XI. Resemblance Between Universals
XII. The Fundamental Tie
XIII. The Apparatus of an Attribute Theory of Universals
6. Tropes
I. Substances Versus Bundles
II. States of Affairs Again
III. Tropes and the Problem of Universals
IV. Tropes as Substitutes for Univerals
V. A Trope Substitute for the Resemblance of Universals
VI. Trope Nominalism Versus "Regular" Nominalism
VII. Bundles Versus Substance-Attribute Again
VIII. Natural Classes of Tropes Versus Resemblances
IX. Swapping of Tropes
X. Tropes with Universals
7. Summing Up
References
Index
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).
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