Book1989
Universals: An Opinionated Introduction
D. M. Armstrong
Defends a moderate realism on which universals exist only in the particulars that instantiate them, surveying and rejecting nominalist alternatives in turn.
PaidIntermediate
Universals & Particulars
A topic within Metaphysics, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.
Reading on Universals & Particulars
22 works
Paper1925
Universals
Frank P. Ramsey
Argues the traditional distinction between particulars and universals is not a fundamental division in reality but an artefact of subject-predicate grammar, since the same fact can be described either way.
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