Universals and scientific realism / 1. Nominalism and realism
David Malet Armstrong (Author)
This is a study, in two volumes, of one of the longest standing philosophical problems: the problem of universals. In volume I David Armstrong surveys and criticizes the main approaches and solutions to the problems that have been canvassed, rejecting the various forms of nominalism and 'Platonic' realism.
Print Book, English, 1995
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Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1995
Universals and scientific realism, / D.M. Armstrong ; Vol. 1
XV, 149 Seiten.
9780521280334, 9780521217415, 0521280338, 0521217415
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Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Predicates; Part II. Theories of Universals: 2. Predicate nominalism; 3. Concept nominalism; 4. Class nominalism; 5. Resemblance nominalism; 6. Arguments for realism; 7. Transcendent universals; 8. Properties and relations as particulars; Part III. Particulars: 9. Are particulars reducible to universals?; 10. The Lockean account of particulars; 11. Particulars and universals; 12. A world-hypothesis.