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Full Idea
An immanent universal will routinely be 'at some distance from itself', in the sense that it is wholly present in more than one place.
Gist of Idea
An immanent universal is wholly present in more than one place
Source
Dean W. Zimmerman (Distinct Indiscernibles and the Bundle Theory [1997], p.306)
Book Ref
-: 'Mind' [-], p.306
A Reaction
This is the Aristotelian view, which sounds distinctly implausible in this formulation. Though I suppose redness is wholly present in a tomato, in the way that fourness is wholly present in the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. How many rednesses are there?