This chapter is concerned with what it calls Aristocratic Resemblance Nominalism, according to which what makes a particular F is not that it resembles all F-particulars but that it resembles certain F-particulars, the so-called paradigms. It is argued that some versions of Aristocratic Resemblance Nominalism are seriously defective and that, in general, the theory lacks a sound motivation. Thus, Aristocratic Resemblance Nominalism is rejected in favour of Egalitarian Resemblance Nominalism, according to which there are no paradigms and being F is a matter of resembling all the F-particulars.
Keywords: Armstrong, Aristocract Resemblance Nominalism, counterparadigms, paradigms, Price