Full Idea
Everything that really exists is an individual.
Gist of Idea
Only individuals exist
Source
Thomas Reid (Essays on Intellectual Powers 5: Abstraction [1785], 6)
Book Reference
Reid,Thomas: 'Inquiry and Essays', ed/tr. Beanblossom /K.Lehrer [Hackett 1983], p.244
A Reaction
Locke is the probable inspiration for this nominalist affirmation. Not sure how high temperature plasma, or the oceans of the world, fit into this. On the whole I agree with him. He is mainly rejecting abstract universals.
Related Idea
Idea 7717 All things that exist are particulars [Locke]