Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 97 (1):48-78 (2018)
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Realists about universals face a question about grounding. Are things how they are because they instantiate the universals they do? Or do they instantiate those universals because they are how they are? Take Ebenezer Scrooge. You can say that Scrooge is greedy because he instantiates greediness, or you can say that Scrooge instantiates greediness because he is greedy. I argue that there is reason to prefer the latter to the former. I develop two arguments for the view. I also respond to some concerns one might have about the view defended. I close by showing that analogous views regarding the truth of propositions and the existence of facts are supported by analogs of one of these arguments.
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Keywords | grounding universals properties relations realism |
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Reprint years | 2017, 2018 |
DOI | 10.1111/phpr.12366 |
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