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A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their InstantiationsTranscendent Universals and Ontological Priority

A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their Instantiations: Transcendent Universals and... [Universals are postulated to satisfy certain explanatory work. They partially ground the nature that objects have. They partially ground objective resemblances between objects. They partially ground causal powers. In effect, objects are as they are, because they instantiate certain universals. At the same time, the Aristotelian maintains that universals require instantiations to exist, i.e., universals are grounded in their instantiations. It is argued in this chapter that the grounding profile attributed to universals by Aristotelians is incompatible with the general grounding profile that any universal –either Platonic or Aristotelian– should have.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Metaphysics of Platonic Universals and their InstantiationsTranscendent Universals and Ontological Priority

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-53392-2
Pages
189 –200
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-53393-9_8
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Abstract

[Universals are postulated to satisfy certain explanatory work. They partially ground the nature that objects have. They partially ground objective resemblances between objects. They partially ground causal powers. In effect, objects are as they are, because they instantiate certain universals. At the same time, the Aristotelian maintains that universals require instantiations to exist, i.e., universals are grounded in their instantiations. It is argued in this chapter that the grounding profile attributed to universals by Aristotelians is incompatible with the general grounding profile that any universal –either Platonic or Aristotelian– should have.]

Published: Oct 28, 2020

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