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Ideas for Brand Blanshard, Keith Campbell and Edmund L. Gettier

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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

8521	Nominalism has the problem that without humans nothing would resemble anything else [Campbell,K]
	Full Idea: The objection to nominalism is its consequence that if there were no human race (or other living things), nothing would be like anything else.
	From: Keith Campbell (The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars [1981], §6)
	A reaction: Anti-realists will be unflustered by this difficulty. Personally it strikes me as obvious that some aspects of resemblance are part of reality which we did not contribute. This I take to be a contingent fact, founded on the existence of natural kinds.