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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

6717	Abstract ideas are impossible [Berkeley]
	Full Idea: We have, I think, shown the impossibility of Abstract Ideas.
	From: George Berkeley (The Principles of Human Knowledge [1710], Intro §21)
	A reaction: He achieves this by an attack on universals, offering the nominalist view that there are only particulars. There seems to be a middle ground, where universals don't actually exist, but there are settled conventional abstraction, beyond particulars.