A Neglected Aspect of Hume’s Nominalism

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 52 (2):197-207 (2022)
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In this paper, I point to two problems engendered by two assumptions that Hume makes. The first is his nominalism: the view that all ideas are fully determinate with respect to all the aspects that are represented in them. The second, perhaps hitherto unnoticed, is that names denote ideas. I propose some solutions, aiming to find one that is Humean.

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Ruth Weintraub
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