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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Willard Quine and Alain Badiou

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8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

1612	Realism, conceptualism and nominalism in medieval universals reappear in maths as logicism, intuitionism and formalism [Quine]
	Full Idea: The three medieval views on universals (realism, conceptualism and nominalism) reappear in the philosophy of maths as logicism, intuitionism and formalism.
	From: Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.14)

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 2. Need for Universals

3751	Universals are acceptable if they are needed to make an accepted theory true [Quine, by Jacquette]
	Full Idea: Abstract entities (universals) are admitted to an ontology by Quine's criterion if they must be supposed to exist (or subsist) in order to make the propositions of an accepted theory true.
	From: report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by Dale Jacquette - Abstract Entity p.3