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Single Idea 4444

[from 'Universals' by David M. Armstrong, in 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes ]

Full Idea

There is a 'moderate' nominalism (found in G.F.Stout, for example) which says that properties and relations do exist, but that they are particulars rather than universals.

Gist of Idea

One moderate nominalist view says that properties and relations exist, but they are particulars

Source

David M. Armstrong (Universals [1995], p.504)

Book Reference

'A Companion to Metaphysics', ed/tr. Kim,Jaegwon/Sosa,Ernest [Blackwell 1995], p.504


A Reaction

Both this view and the 'mereological' view seem to be ducking the problem. If you have two red particulars and a green one, how do we manage to spot the odd one out?

Related Idea

Idea 7972 Tropes are abstract particulars, not concrete particulars, so the theory is not nominalist [Macdonald,C]