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  1. Richard I. Aaron (1965). Wittgenstein's Theory of Universals. Mind 74 (294):249-251.
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  2. Richard Ithamar Aaron (1952). The Theory of Universals. Oxford [Eng.]Clarendon Press.
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  3. Richard Ithamar Aaron (1947/1975). Our Knowledge of Universals. Haskell House Publishers.
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  4. H. B. Acton (1937). The Theory of Concrete Universals (II.). Mind 46 (181):1-13.
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  5. H. B. Acton (1936). The Theory of Concrete Universals (I.). Mind 45 (180):1-13.
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  6. H. B. Acton (1936). The Theory of Concrete Universals. Mind 45 (180):417-431.
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  7. Joseph Agassi & Paul T. Sagal (1975). The Problem of Universals. Philosophical Studies 28 (4):289 - 294.
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  8. R. Ainscough (1929). Relations and Universals. Mind 38 (150):137-160.
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  9. Erik Åkerlund (2009). Suárez on Forms, Universals and Understanding. Studia Neoaristotelica 6 (2):159-182.
    Suarezii de formis, universalibus, notitia intellectiva sententiaSententia Suarezii circa quaestionem famosam de statu universalium variissimis modis ab diversis interpretibus exponi solet. In disertatio quidem proposita res paulo aliter pertractatur, a Suarezii metaphysica doctrina de formis substantialibus et de cognitione intellectiva ac sctientia exeundo. Quae Suarezii doctrinae diligenti analysi subiciuntur earumque conexio consideratur. Respectu quaestione supradicta, scil. quaenam fuit vera Suarezii de statu universalium sententia, arguitur, Suarezium nominalismum moderatum professum esse, quae conclusio suadetur ex doctrinis suis de formis substantialibus et de (...)
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  10. Edwin B. Allaire (1960). Existence, Independence and Universals. Philosophical Review 69 (4):485-496.
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  11. James W. Allard (2007). Sprigge's Vindication of Concrete Universals. In Pierfrancesco Basile & Leemon B. McHenry (eds.), Consciousness, Reality and Value: Essays in Honour of T.L.S. Sprigge. Ontos.
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  12. Christoph Antweiler (2007). Was Ist den Menschen Gemeinsam?: Über Kultur Und Kulturen. Wbg, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
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  13. Peter C. Appleby (1992). The Problem of Universals. The Review of Metaphysics 46 (2):421-422.
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  14. Chrudzimski Arkadiusz (2002). Two Concepts of Trope. Grazer Philosophische Studien 64 (1):137-155.
    The concept of a trope (understood as an individual property and not as a figure of speech) plays an important role in contemporary analytical metaphysics. It is, however, often far from clear what the logic of this concept really is. Indeed, there are two equally important intuitions underlying the concept of trope, two intuitions that generate two quite different conceptual frameworks. According to the first intuition, a trope is a particularised property – a property taken as an individual aspect of (...)
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  15. D. M. Armstrong (2010). Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics. Oxford University Press.
    David Armstrong sets out his metaphysical system in a set of concise and lively chapters each dealing with one aspect of the world.
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  16. D. M. Armstrong (1993). A World of States of Affairs. Philosophical Perspectives 7:429-440.
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  17. D. M. Armstrong (1989). Universals: An Opinionated Introduction. Westview Press.
    In this short text, a distinguished philosopher 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 (...)
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  18. D. M. Armstrong (1986). In Defence of Structural Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (1):85 – 88.
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  19. D. M. Armstrong (1982). Laws of Nature as Relations Between Universals and as Universals. Philosophical Topics 13 (1):7-24.
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  20. D. M. Armstrong (1978). Universals and Scientific Realism. Cambridge University Press.
    v. 1. Nominalism and realism.--v. 2. A theory of universals.
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  21. D. M. Armstrong (1975). Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals. Philosophy 50 (192):145-.
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  22. D. M. Armstrong (1974). Infinite Regress Arguments and the Problem of Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 52 (3):191 – 201.
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  23. David M. Armstrong (2005). Four Disputes About Properties. Synthese 144 (3):1-12.
    In considering the nature of properties four controversial decisions must be made. (1) Are properties universals or tropes? (2) Are properties attributes of particulars, or are particulars just bundles of properties? (3) Are properties categorical (qualitative) in nature, or are they powers? (4) If a property attaches to a particular, is this predication contingent, or is it necessary? These choices seem to be in a great degree independent of each other. The author indicates his own choices.
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  24. David M. Armstrong (1978). Universals and Scientific Realism: A Theory of Universals Vol. Ii. Cambridge University Press.
  25. David M. Armstrong (1978). Universals and Scientific Realism: Nominalism and Realism Vol. I. Cambridge University Press.
  26. David Malet Armstrong (1978). Nominalism and Realism. Universals and Scientific Realism Volume I. Cambridge University Press.
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  27. David Malet Armstrong (1978). A Theory of Universals. Universals and Scientific Realism Volume Ii. Cambridge University Press.
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  28. R. J. B. (1962). Modes of Referring and the Problem of Universals. The Review of Metaphysics 15 (3):529-529.
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  29. Emmon Bach & R. Harms (eds.) (1968). Universals in Linguistic Theory. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
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  30. Allan Bäck (1995). Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals. The Review of Metaphysics 49 (2):437-438.
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  31. John Bacon (1995). Universals and Property Instances: The Alphabet of Being. Blackwell.
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  32. John Bacon (1986). Armstrong's Theory of Properties. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (1):47 – 53.
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  33. Roger Bacon (1989). Three Treatments of Universals. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton.
  34. Raja Bahlul (2009). Avicenna and the Problem of Universals. Philosophy and Theology 21 (1/2):3-25.
    The main object of this paper is to clarify and evaluate Avicenna’s view of universals, in light of some modern and contemporarydiscussions. According to Avicenna, universality is a contingent attribute of entities that are in themselves neither universal norparticular. An account of universality as a contingent attribute is offered which clarifies and gives additional support to Avicenna’sview. Nevertheless, it will be argued that Avicenna, through his use of such terms as “nature” and “quiddity,” faces the same problemswhich he attributes to (...)
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  35. Todd Bates (2010/2012). Duns Scotus and the Problem of Universals. Continuum.
    Scotus recidivus? -- On the structure of material substance in Scotus' metaphysics -- Substantial natures : neither singular nor universal, but common -- On individuation by the haecceity -- Numerical singular created natures and supposita.
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  36. Charles A. Baylis (1951). Universals, Communicable Knowledge, and Metaphysics. Journal of Philosophy 48 (21):636-644.
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  37. George Bealer (1998). Universals and Properties. In Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics. Blackwell.
    This paper summarizes and extends the transmodal argument for the existence of universals (developed in full detail in "Universals"). This argument establishes not only the existence of universals, but also that they exist necessarily, thereby confirming the ante rem view against the post rem and in re views (and also anti-existentialism against existentialism). Once summarized, the argument is extended to refute the trope theory of properties and is also shown to succeed even if possibilism is assumed. A nonreductionist theory of (...)
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  38. George Bealer (1993). Universals. Journal of Philosophy 60 (1):5-32.
    Presented here is an argument for the existence of universals. Like Church's translation-test argument, the argument turns on considerations from intensional logic. But whereas Church's argument turns on the fine-grained informational content of intensional sentences, this argument turns on the distinctive logical features of 'that'-clauses embedded within modal contexts. And unlike Church's argument, this argument applies against truth-conditions nominalism and also against conceptualism and in re realism (the doctrine that universals are ontologically dependent upon the existence of instances). So (...)
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  39. George Bealer (1982). Quality and Concept. Oxford University Press.
    This study provides a unified theory of properties, relations, and propositions (PRPs). Two conceptions of PRPs have emerged in the history of philosophy. The author explores both of these traditional conceptions and shows how they can be captured by a single theory.
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  40. Jiri Benovsky (2013). New Reasons to Motivate Trope Theory: Endurantism and Perdurantism. Acta Analytica 28 (2):223-227.
    In this paper, I argue that (non-presentist) endurantism is incompatible with the view that properties are universals. I do so by putting forward a very simple objection that forces the endurantist to embrace tropes, rather than universals. I do not claim that this is bad news for the endurantist—trope theory seems to me by all means more appealing than universals—rather, I would like to see this result as a further motivation to embrace tropes. I then also put forward a (more (...)
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  41. Scott Berman (2008). Universals: Ways or Things? Metaphysica 9 (2):219-234.
    What all contemporary so-called aristotelian realists have in common has been identified by David Armstrong as the principle of instantiation. This principle has been put forward in different versions, but all of them have the following simple consequence in common: uninstantiated universals do not exist. Such entities are for the lotus-eating Platonist to countenance, but not for any sort of moderate realist. I shall argue that this principle, in any guise, is not the best way to differentiate aristotelianism from Platonism. (...)
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  42. Arthur Berndtson (1954). The Theory of Universals. The Modern Schoolman 31 (2):147-151.
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  43. Roger Bibace (ed.) (2005). Science and Medicine in Dialogue: Thinking Through Particulars and Universals. Praeger.
    Written by three experts in the field, this book explores the understanding of human wellness and disease as fostered through the collaborative contributions of ...
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  44. John Bigelow (1986). Towards Structural Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (1):94 – 96.
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  45. John Bigelow & Robert Pargetter (1989). A Theory of Structural Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 67 (1):1 – 11.
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  46. T. Binkley (1975). Wittgenstein and the Problem of Universals. Teaching Philosophy 1 (2):183-186.
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  47. Maria Bittner (2008). Aspectual Universals of Temporal Anaphora. In Susan Rothstein (ed.), Theoretical and Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Semantics of Aspect. John Benjamins.
    It has long been recognized that temporal anaphora in French and English depends on the aspectual distinction between events and states. For example, temporal location as well as temporal update depends on the aspectual type. This paper presents a general theory of aspect-based temporal anaphora, which extends from languages with grammatical tenses (like French and English) to tenseless languages (e.g. Kalaallisut). This theory also extends to additional aspect-dependent phenomena and to non-atomic aspectual types, processes and habits, which license anaphora to (...)
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  48. Thomas Bittner, Maureen Donnelly & Barry Smith (2004). Individuals, Universals, Collections: On the Foundational Relations of Ontology. In Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference, 37–48. IOS Press.
    This paper provides an axiomatic formalization of a theory of foundational relations between three categories of entities: individuals, universals, and collections. We deal with a variety of relations between entities in these categories, including the is-a relation among universals and the part-of relation among individuals as well as cross-category relations such as instance-of, member-of, and partition-of. We show that an adequate understanding of the formal properties of such relations – in particular their behavior with respect to time – is critical (...)
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  49. Larry Lee Blackman (1983). Russell on the Relations of Universals and Particulars. Philosophy Research Archives 9:265-278.
    In his 1911 paper, “On the Relations of Universals and Particulars,” Bertrand Russell supposes the question whether universals are spatial or non spatial turns on the question of the existence of particulars. If particulars could be shown to exist, then since, according to Russell, they obviously are spatial, the non-spatiality of universals would be established. On the other hand, the denial of the existence of particulars would entail the spatiality of universals.In this paper, I argue that Russell’s claim is plausible (...)
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  50. John Bolender (2006). Nomic Universals and Particular Causal Relations: Which Are Basic and Which Are Derived? Philosophia 34 (4):405-410.
    Armstrong holds that a law of nature is a certain sort of structural universal which, in turn, fixes causal relations between particular states of affairs. His claim that these nomic structural universals explain causal relations commits him to saying that such universals are irreducible, not supervenient upon the particular causal relations they fix. However, Armstrong also wants to avoid Plato’s view that a universal can exist without being instantiated, a view which he regards as incompatible with naturalism. This construal of (...)
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  51. John F. Boler (1963). Abailard and the Problem of Universals. Journal of the History of Philosophy 1 (1):37-51.
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  52. O. K. Bouwsma (1943). Russell's Argument on Universals. Philosophical Review 52 (2):193-199.
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  53. John M. Brewster (1936). A Behavioristic Account of the Logical Function of Universals. I. Journal of Philosophy 33 (19):505-514.
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  54. John M. Brewster (1936). A Behavioristic Account of the Logical Function of Universals, II. Journal of Philosophy 33 (20):533-547.
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  55. John Monroe Brewster (1936/1937). A Behavioristic Account of the Logical Function of Universals, II. Journal of Philosophy 33 (20):533 - 547.
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  56. Donald Brownstein (1973). Aspects of the Problem of Universals. University of Kansas.
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  57. H. Clark Barrett With Bryant & A. G., Recognizing Intentions in Infant-Directed Speech: Evidence for Universals.
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  58. Tom Burke (2002). Qualities, Universals, Kinds, and the New Riddle of Induction. In F. Thomas Burke, D. Micah Hester & Robert B. Talisse (eds.), Dewey's Logical Theory: New Studies and Interpretations. Vanderbilt University Press.
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  59. William Bynoe (2011). Against the Compositional View of Facts. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (1):91-100.
    It is commonly assumed that facts would be complex entities made out of particulars and universals. This thesis, which I call Compositionalism, holds that parthood may be construed broadly enough so that the relation that holds between a fact and the entities it ‘ties’ together counts as a kind of parthood. I argue firstly that Compositionalism is incompatible with the possibility of certain kinds of fact and universal, and, secondly, that such facts and universals are possible. I conclude that Compositionalism (...)
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  60. Christine A. Caldwell (2008). Convergent Cultural Evolution May Explain Linguistic Universals. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 31 (5):515-516.
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  61. Keith Campbell (2008). Review of Simone Gozzano, Francesco Orilia (Eds.), Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind: Essays at the Boundary of Ontology and Philosophical Psychology. [REVIEW] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (8).
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  62. Chad Carmichael (2010). Universals. Philosophical Studies 150 (3):373-89.
    In this paper, I argue that there are universals. I begin (Sect. 1) by proposing a sufficient condition for a thing’s being a universal. I then argue (Sect. 2) that some truths exist necessarily. Finally, I argue (Sects. 3 and 4) that these truths are structured entities having constituents that meet the proposed sufficient condition for being universals.
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  63. Peter A. Carmichael (1948). "Derivation" of Universals. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8 (4):700-705.
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  64. John W. Carroll (1992). Causation and Universals, by Evan Fales. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (4):1001-1004.
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  65. Albert Casullo (1984). The Contingent Identity of Particulars and Universals. Mind 93 (372):527-541.
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  66. Albert Casullo (1981). Unexemplified Universals and Possible Worlds. Philosophical Studies 40 (2):195 - 198.
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  67. Charles E. Caton (1962). Book Review:Modes of Referring and the Problem of Universals, an Essay in Metaphysics D. S. Shwayder. [REVIEW] Philosophy of Science 29 (4):438-.
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  68. J. J. Chambliss (1988). Giambattista Vice's Imaginative Universals and Plato's Quest for the Good. Educational Theory 38 (3):311-320.
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  69. Charles S. Chihara (1968). Our Ontological Commitment to Universals. Noûs 2 (1):25-46.
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  70. Daniel Chlastawa (2011). Bertrand Russell I Uniwersalia. Filozofia Nauki 3.
    Bertrand Russell paid considerable attention to the problem of universals throughout his long life. One of main factors which contributed to Russell’s rejection of Hegelian philosophy (which is commonly viewed as a beginning of analytic philosophy) was rejection of so-called internal relations theory, according to which relations reduce to properties of relata or of the whole composed of them. For Russell relations were examples of indispensable universals. Russell is also famous for developing the similarity argument for realism: if we want (...)
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  71. Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (2011). Realistyczne teorie uniwersaliów (realist theories of universals). In Sebastian Kołodziejczyk (ed.), Przewodnik po Metafizyce. WAM.
    This is a general introduction to the metaphysics o universals.
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  72. Arkadiusz Chrudzimski (2008). Enduring States. In Christian Kanzian (ed.), Persistence. Ontos.
    The problem of how a concrete individual survives changes of its properties has long divided the philosophical community into ‘enduratists’ and ‘perduratists’. Enduratists take the idea of a surviving individual ontologi-cally seriously. They claim that many objects we encounter in our every-day (and for that matter also scientific) life endure in time, which means that these entities are wholly present at any time at which they exist. For those who are in principle happy with the conceptual framework of our ‘everyday’ (...)
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  73. Ralph W. Clark (1981). The Existence of Universals. The New Scholasticism 55 (3):363-372.
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  74. Ralph W. Clark (1974). Saint Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Universals. The Monist 58 (1):163-172.
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  75. Francis P. Clarke (1962). St. Thomas on "Universals". Journal of Philosophy 59 (23):720-725.
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  76. Justin Clarke-Doane, Platonic Semantics.
    If anything is taken for granted in contemporary metaphysics, it is that platonism with respect to a discourse of metaphysical interest, such as fictional or mathematical discourse, affords a better account of the semantic appearances than nominalism, other things being equal. This belief is often motivated by the intuitively stronger one that the platonist can take the semantic appearances “at face-value” while the nominalist must resort to apparently ad hoc and technically problematic machinery in order to explain those appearances away. (...)
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  77. John J. Cleary (1987). Science, Universals, and Reality. Ancient Philosophy 7:95-130.
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  78. L. Jonathan Cohen (1987). Laws, Coincidences, and Relations Between Universals. In J. J. C. Smart, Philip Pettit, Richard Sylvan & Jean Norman (eds.), Metaphysics and Morality: Essays in Honour of J.J.C. Smart. B. Blackwell.
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  79. M. J. Cresswell (1975). What is Aristotle's Theory of Universals? Australasian Journal of Philosophy 53 (3):238 – 247.
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  80. Campbell Crockett (1954). Contemporary Interpretations of the Problem of Universals. Philosophical Review 63 (2):241-249.
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  81. Richard Cross (2005). Relations, Universals, and the Abuse of Tropes. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (1):53–72.
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  82. Javier Cumpa (2012). Observation and Interpretation: The Problem of the Problem of Universals. Metaphysica 13 (2):131-143.
    It is argued that a number of related influential contemporary solutions to certain problems of the “realism–nominalism issue” seem to depend on an interpretation of those problems rather than upon observations of things. The problem of universals is a case in point. Therefore, there is a problem of the problem of universals and it has to be clarified what the problem of universals is. A primitive or uninterpreted raising of the problem is the main pupose of this paper. In order (...)
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  83. Arnold Cusmariu, Realizing Beauty.
    Tackling the question whether beauty is a property as if the problem of universals could safely be ignored leads to confusions exemplified in Scruton 2009, McMahon 2007, Zangwill 2001 and Scarry 1999, among recent writers. I frame the question in the proper context with a measure of precision, clear away misunderstandings, present a logically valid argument for an affirmative answer, list three relevant and four irrelevant ways of countering the argument, and show that well-known views of Hume and Kant yield (...)
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  84. Arnold Cusmariu (1980). Ryle's Paradox and the Concept of Exemplification. Grazer Philosophische Studien 10 (1):65-71.
    Gilbert Ryle has argued that Plato's Theory of Forms is a "logically vicious" doctrine because it's fundamental concept of exemplification leads to a vicious infinite regress. David Armstrong and Alan Donagan have agreed with Ryle. After making Ryle's argument logically explicit, I show the exemplification regress is illusory. Exemplification is a genuine universal alongside other relations; there is nothing paradoxical in its being exemplified over and over and over ... Platonism can define logical properties of this relation but not the (...)
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  85. Arnold Cusmariu (1979). On an Aristotelian Theory of Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (1):51 – 58.
    A theory purporting to solve the problem of universals must be able to explain predication, recurrence, and classification. How Platonism does this is well known. Here I take a hard look at an attempt by M.J. Cresswell to give an Aristotelian answer and show it to be a complete and utter failure. The answer does not eliminate commitment to universals and it is only half an answer anyway because it does not cover relational predicates, an omission that Russell noted dooms (...)
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  86. Arnold Cusmariu (1979). On an Aristotelian Theory of Universals. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 57 (1):51-58.
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  87. Arnold Cusmariu (1978). Nonexistence Without Nonexistents. Philosophical Studies 33 (4):409-412.
    Platonism considers existence as well as nonexistence as genuine properties. Kant and others have denied the former and the latter seems absurd. I reply that critics have forgotten that Platonism means accepting properties that are neither exemplified (like being a unicorn) nor exemplifiable (like nonexistence). I also present a Platonist analysis of negative existentials without appealing to nonexistence.
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  88. Arnold Cusmariu (1978). Self-Relations. Southern Journal of Philosophy 16 (4):321-327.
    According to Platonism, "Socrates is wise" expresses the exemplification by Socrates of the property of being wise; while "Simmias is taller than Socrates" expresses the exemplification by <Simmias, Socrates> of the relation of being taller than. What about "Socrates is as tall as Socrates"? Is this property or relation exemplification? I show there is an answer that solves Russell's Paradox, Plato's "Third Man" argument, and the Greeling-Nelson paradox of non-self-applying terms.
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  89. Arnold Cusmariu (1978). Subsistence Demystified. Auslegung 6 (1):24-27.
    In "The Problems of Philosophy," Russell held that universals not exist, rather, they subsist. In the same work, he stated that universals are nevertheless "something," without intending to suggest that quantification over universals would require a special quantifier. I show these apparently conflicting statements can be reconciled with a simple definition of "subsists.".
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  90. Arnold Cusmariu (1978). About Property Identity. Auslegung 5 (3):139-146.
    W.V.O. Quine has famously objected that (1) properties are philosophically suspect because (2) there is no entity without identity and (3) the synonymy criterion for property identity won't do because there's no such concept as synonymy. (2) and (3) may or may not be right but do not prove (1). I reply that Leiniz's Law handles property identity, as it does for everything else, then respond to a variety of objections and confusions.
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  91. Daniel O. Dahlstrom (1980). Signification and Logic: Scotus on Universals From a Logical Point of View. Vivarium 18 (2):81-111.
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  92. Rasvihary Das (1929). Character and Universals. The Monist 39 (4):629-638.
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  93. Richard Brian Davis (forthcoming). How to Individuate Universals—Or Not. Axiomathes.
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  94. Jan Dejnožka (2001). Butchvarov: Phenomenology, Ontology, Universals, and Goodness. Philosophia 28 (1-4):445-454.
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  95. John Dewey (1936). What Are Universals? Journal of Philosophy 33 (11):281-288.
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  96. Judith Dijs (1990). Two Anonymous 12th-Century Tracts on Universals. Vivarium 28 (2):85-117.
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  97. Alan Donagan (1963). Universals and Metaphysical Realism. The Monist 47 (2):211-246.
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  98. C. Dorr (2005). Review: Resemblance Nominalism: A Solution to the Problem of Universals. [REVIEW] Mind 114 (454):457-461.
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  99. Cian Dorr, Why Must a Duplicate of an Electron Be an Electron?
    (Q)! x and y are qualitatively indiscernible =df there is a global isomorphism π such that π(x)=y. (R)! π is an isomorphism =df ! (i) π(x) = x whenever x is a property or relation ! (ii) π(x) instantiates π(p) iff x instantiates p ! (iii) π(x) bears π(r) to π(y) iff x bears r to y, etc.
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  100. Cian Dorr (2004). Non-Symmetric Relations. Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 1:155-92.
    Presupposing that most predicates do not correspond directly to genuine relations, I argue that all genuine relations are symmetric. My main argument depends on the premise that there are no brute necessities, interpreted so as to require logical and metaphysical necessity to coincide for sentences composed entirely of logical vocabulary and primitive predicates. Given this premise, any set of purportedly primitive predicates by which one might hope to express the facts about non-symmetric relations order their relata will generate an objectionable (...)
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