Browsing by Subject "Universals (Philosophy)"

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    • How to Individuate Universals—Or Not 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (Kluwer Academic PublishersDordrecht, Netherlands, 2013)
      In a recent article in this journal, J. P. Moreland (2013) extends his theory of individuation to include universals. In this note, I show how Moreland’s novel proposal leads to the unwanted conclusion that every concrete ...

    • Is Socrates a Predicate? 

      Davis, Richard Brian, 1963- (De GruyterBerlin, Germany, 2006)
      In his Moderate Realism and Its Logic (Yale, 1996), Donald Mertz argues that the traditional ontology of nonpredicable substances and predicable universals is beset by “intractable problems,” “harbors an insidious error,” ...