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Full Idea
Mereological Nominalism views a property as the omnitemporal whole or aggregate of all the things said to have the property, so whiteness is a huge white object whose parts are all the white things.
Clarification
'Mereological' means explaining relationships between parts and whotes
Gist of Idea
'Mereological Nominalism' sees whiteness as a huge white object consisting of all the white things
Source
David M. Armstrong (Universals [1995], p.503)
Book Ref
'A Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Kim,Jaegwon/Sosa,Ernest [Blackwell 1995], p.503
A Reaction
A charming proposal, in which bizarre and beautiful unities thread themselves across the universe, but white objects may also be soft and warm.
| 11094 | 'Red' is a single concrete object in space-time; 'red' and 'drop' are parts of a red drop [Quine] |
| 11097 | Red is the largest red thing in the universe [Quine] |
| 4437 | 'Mereological Nominalism' sees whiteness as a huge white object consisting of all the white things [Armstrong] |
| 4438 | 'Mereological Nominalism' may work for whiteness, but it doesn't seem to work for squareness [Armstrong] |
| 10173 | A nominalist might avoid abstract objects by just appealing to mereological sums [Reck/Price] |