On 9/5/2011 12:02 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
Realism and nominalism in philosophy are related to universals (I guess that numbers
could be probably considered as universals as well). A simple example:
A is a person;
B is a person.
Does A is equal to B? The answer is no, A and B are after all different persons. Yet
then the question would be if something universal and related to a term "person" exists
in A and B.
Realism says that universals do exist independent from the mind (so in this sense it has
nothing to do with the physical realism and materialism),
I think of that as Platonism. I think of realism as just the theory that things exist
independent of minds.
Brent
nominalism that they are just notation and do not exist as such.
It seems that this page is consistent with what Prof Hoenen says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_universals
Well, he has not discussed what idealism has to do with universals. Please have a look.
If I understand your argument correctly, according to it the universals do exist literally.
Evgenii
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