Questions tagged [universal-and-particulars]
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Could, "If X is red, X has a coloration," possibly be not true like, "Cucumbers are vegetables," is not strictly true?
I just watched this video, I thought it was a joke video at first, but it turned out to be an explanation as to why the metaphysical concept of "vegetables" is not scientifically stable, and ...
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The Most General Form of the Well-Ordering Theorem [closed]
What is the most general form of the well-ordering theorem? I ask because I wanted to share the following:
In its most general form the Well-Ordering Theorem is the following: Any collection of ...
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Arguments in favor of constituent ontology?
What is the reason for thinking that there is such a thing as proper parts and that things like properties are parts of an object. Why believe that things are metaphysically composite, let alone ...
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Why do realists insist that universals EXIST?
Consider a universe of size 10×10×10. Let there be 10 identical looking apples and 10 identical looking rods in it.
Why do realists insist that not just 20 things exists but there also EXISTS ...
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Nature of Values: Is There Such a Thing as a Universal Value?
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The inquiry into the nature of values isn't merely theoretical; it is a matter of existential importance, especially when the values you've grown up with have been rooted in deception, ...
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When I visualize a patch of red and intend that it be the same shade of red as some patch I've previously seen, do I represent a redness universal?
My audiovisual imagination is very active and vivid (to the point of interfering with more objective representation much of the time), but so I am used to the "experience," if you will, of ...
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In the liar/similar sentences, are the characteristic predicates being used more generally or more particularly, or neither?
Between (1) and (2), it seems like "is true" is more particular in the latter than the former:
The truth predicate ("is true") is a predicate attaching to (interpreted) sentences ...
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Do regresses-of-reasons go from particulars to generalities only, or can they mediate chains of just particulars or just generalities too?
I was thinking of Kant's discourse on the form of the law and the law of formality as reciprocal (in the Critique of Practical Reason), where he seems to talk about a regress from specific maxims to ...
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Does nominalism about kinds/universals entail eliminativism/nihilism about ordinary objects?
If one holds a nominalist or conventionalist view of universals or kind, then do they believe that there are ordinary objects?
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Kant and the Ship of Theseus
Does Kant's philosophy of perception and intuition imply that the unity of perceived individuals is an intuition? If so, this seems to resolve the various paradoxes of physical individuals such as the ...
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"Too simple to be simple" (a phrase in category theory) and the concept of absurdity
In category theory as practiced, there is this phrase "generalized abstract nonsense" (GAN), which is often used to cover sections of a derivation/judgment(?) that the audience is meant to ...
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How do humans generalize abstract concepts from concrete objects?
To elaborate, I would like to take the definition of square as example, the square is shape with four equal sides and either two sides form a 90 degrees angle, while we can not directly see it. What ...
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Is nominalism generally considered to be disconfirmed?
In Are numbers particulars?, David Gudeman states "nominalist, which I don't think anyone is these days." I was not aware that nominalism regarding universal is generally considered to be ...
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If there are abstract cases of space and time, then why wouldn't all the other abstract objects be located inside of them?
As per the SEP article on abstract objects:
Some of the archetypes of abstractness are non-spatiotemporal in a straightforward sense. It makes no sense to ask where the cosine function was last ...
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Is it possible to ask a completely generalized question?
Alternatively, are "absolutely" or "perfectly" generalized questions askable? Note that vs. the use-mention distinction, we can refer to questions that can be mentioned but never ...
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