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Nominalism and Realism

D.M. Armstrong

(Universals and scientific realism / D.M. Armstrong, v. 1)

Cambridge University Press, 1980, c1978

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"First paperback edition 1980"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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. In volume II he develops an important theory of his own, an objective theory of universals based not on linguistic conventions, but on the actual and potential findings of natural science. He thus reconciles a realism about qualities and relations with an empiricist epistemology. The theory allows, too, for a convincing explanation of natural laws as relations between these universals.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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  • NCID
    BA21652193
  • ISBN
    • 9780521280334
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xv, 149 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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