Resemblance Nominalism
A Solution to the Problem of Universals
Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Hertford College, Oxford
Print publication date: 2002 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924377-8
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199243778.003.0004
 

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
This chapter argues against a truthmaker version of so-called Ostrich Nominalism, according to which the truthmaker of any sentences like ‘a is F’ is just a. It also argues that the proper understanding of the Problem of Universals is what is called the Many over One (How can a single particular have many properties?) rather than the traditional One over Many (How can many particulars have the same property?). It is also argued that the properties with which Resemblance Nominalism is concerned as a solution to the Problem of Universals are sparse, lowest determinate properties.
Keywords: determinates, determinables, One over Many, Ostrich Nominalism, sparse, abundant
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199243778.003.0004
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