Universals
Subtitle: an opinionated introduction
By: D.M. Armstrong.
Series: Focus series; Focus series (Westview Press)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Universals (Philosophy); Nominalism; Realism; Tropes (Philosophy)
Description: "The author turns his attention to one of the oldest and most fundamental philosophical problems of all: How it is that we are able to sort and classify different things as being of the same natural class? Professor Armstrong carefully sets out six major theories--ancient, modern, and contemporary--and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each. Recognizing that there are no final victories or defeats in metaphysics, Armstrong nonetheless defends a traditional account of universals as the most satisfactory theory we have."--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-143).
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; label: 1
title: The Problem
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: II
title: Class Nominalism
pagenum: 8; label: III
title: Theories
pagenum: 14; label: IV
title: Methodology
pagenum: 18; label: 2
title: Primitive Natural Classes
pagenum: 21; label: I
title: How Is It Determined that a Class is Natural?
pagenum: 21; label: II
title: Degrees of Naturalness
pagenum: 23; label: III
title: The Coextension Problem
pagenum: 25; label: IV
title: Wolterstorff's Argument from the Identity Conditions of Classes
pagenum: 27; label: V
title: Types Determine Classes, Not Classes Types
pagenum: 27; label: VI
title: The Causal Argument
pagenum: 28; label: VII
title: The Problem About Relations
pagenum: 29; label: VIII
title: Higher-Order Types
pagenum: 32; label: IX
title: The Appartatus of the Natural Class Theory
pagenum: 36; label: 3
title: Resemblance Nominalism
pagenum: 39; label: I
title: Properties of Resemblance
pagenum: 39; label: II
title: That Resemblance Is an Internal Relation and the Consequences of This
pagenum: 43; label: III
title: Constructing a Resemblance Class
pagenum: 47; label: IV
title: Identity Conditions for Classes Are No Problem
pagenum: 48; label: V
title: Does Resemblance Determine Type?
pagenum: 49; label: VI
title: The Causal Argument
pagenum: 49; label: VII
title: The Coextension Problem Again
pagenum: 50; label: VIII
title: Relations
pagenum: 51; label: IX
title: Higher-Order Types
pagenum: 52; label: X
title: The Resemblance Regress
pagenum: 53; label: XI
title: The Apparatus of the Resemblance Theory
pagenum: 57; label: 4
title: Particulars as Bundles of Universals
pagenum: 59; label: I
title: Substance-Attribute Versus Bundle Theories
pagenum: 59; label: II
title: The Identity of Indiscernibles
pagenum: 64; label: III
title: Problems of Constructing the Bundle
pagenum: 70; label: IV
title: A Further Problem with Compresence
pagenum: 72; label: V
title: Can Universals Be the Substance of the World?
pagenum: 73; label: 5
title: Universals as Attributes
pagenum: 75; label: I
title: Uninstantiated Universals?
pagenum: 75; label: II
title: Disjunctive, Negative, and Conjunctive Universals
pagenum: 82; label: III
title: Predicates and Universals
pagenum: 84; label: IV
title: States of Affairs
pagenum: 88; label: V
title: A World of States of Affairs?
pagenum: 93; label: VI
title: The Thin and the Thick Particular
pagenum: 94; label: VII
title: Universals as Ways
pagenum: 96; label: VIII
title: Multiple Location
pagenum: 98; label: IX
title: Higher-Order Types
pagenum: 99; label: X
title: The Formal Properties of Resemblance
pagenum: 102; label: XI
title: Resemblance Between Universals
pagenum: 103; label: XII
title: The Fundamental Tie
pagenum: 108; label: XIII
title: The Apparatus of an Attribute Theory of Universals
pagenum: 111; label: 6
title: Tropes
pagenum: 113; label: I
title: Substances Versus Bundles
pagenum: 113; label: II
title: States of Affairs Again
pagenum: 116; label: III
title: Tropes and the Problem of Universals
pagenum: 119; label: IV
title: Tropes as Substitutes for Univerals
pagenum: 121; label: V
title: A Trope Substitute for the Resemblance of Universals
pagenum: 122; label: VI
title: Trope Nominalism Versus "Regular" Nominalism
pagenum: 125; label: VII
title: Bundles Versus Substance-Attribute Again
pagenum: 127; label: VIII
title: Natural Classes of Tropes Versus Resemblances
pagenum: 128; label: IX
title: Swapping of Tropes
pagenum: 131; label: X
title: Tropes with Universals
pagenum: 132; label: 7
title: Summing Up
pagenum: 135; title: References
pagenum: 141; title: Index
pagenum: 145