By David A.J. Seargent
ISBN-10: 9400951310
ISBN-13: 9789400951310
ISBN-10: 9401087695
ISBN-13: 9789401087698
by D. M. Armstrong within the background of the dialogue of the matter of universals, G. F. Stout has an honoured, and specified. position. For the Nominalist, which means via that time period a thinker who holds that life of repeatables - forms, types, variety- and the indubitable life of normal phrases, is an issue. The Nominalist's opponent, the Realist, escapes the Nominalist's trouble by way of postulating universals. He then faces problems of his personal. Is he to put those universals in a different realm? Or is he to carry them all the way down to earth: probably turning them into repeatable houses of details (universalia in res), and repeatable kinfolk among universals (universalia inter res)? Whichever resolution he opts for, there are recognized problems approximately how details stand to those universals. lower than those conditions the Nominalist may well make a big con cession to the Realist, a concession which he could make with out forsaking his Nominalism. He might concede that metaphysics should realize that details have houses (qualities, might be) and are similar by way of family. yet, he can retain, those homes and family are details, no longer universals. Nor, certainly, is this kind of place totally closed to the Realist. A Realist approximately universals may perhaps, and a few Realists do, settle for particularized houses and relatives as well as universals. As Dr. Seargent indicates at first of his publication. a doctrine of half icularized houses and kin has led at the least a submerged life from Plato onwards. The exact, classical.
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But these judgements never reveal a mere thing apart from its characters, but always the thing as in some way characterised" (NUP, p. 8). Thus, "Both for mere acquaintance with things and for knowledge about them the principle holds good that a substance, being nothing apart from its adjectives, cannot be known apart from them" (NUP, p. 8), and if it cannot be known apart from them, there is no reason to suppose that it is anything other than the complex of its characters. Nothing, then, in the nature of acquaintance compels us to modify our objection to the Lockean substratum, or inclines us toward an alternative philosophy of the concrete particular which may be more compatible with the Russellian theory of realistically-conceived universals.
77) but, in so doing, he admitted that he passed by a difficulty which "if it were real, would be fatal to any such view" (GN, p. e. the thesis that characters are themselves universals and that the equating of a thing with a 'bundle of characters' must, ipso facto, necessitate the thesis that a concrete thing is nothing but a bundle of universals. As we have already seen in our discussion of Stout's criticism of Russell, Stout explicitly rejected such a position. We saw, also, that the alternative theorv of a 'substantial substratum' in which qualities inhere was not considered viable.
Iv) Therefore, we see that, if not all, at least most reality must be particular. "For in existence the individuals which are real are finite. To some extent at least they are defined by their limits. It is because they repel other things that they are what they are. Exclusion 15 by others, and exlusion of others, enters into their substance; and where this is there is particularity" (PL, p. 187). It is, as Bradley states, obvious that words have been used with different meanings in the above.
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