WHY ACCEPT TRASCENDENT UNIVERSALS?
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol4Iss2a112Keywords:
universals, ontology, D. M.Armstrong, epistemologyAbstract
In this work it is argued that if one has to accept universals in our ontology, then one should also accept transcendent universals. Three arguments are presented in favour of this conclusion: (a) the plausibility of accepting the existence of complex universals out of more simple ones; (b) the contingency of the instantiations with respect to the universal instantiated; and (c) the plausible existence of natural laws even when the universals appearing therein are not instantiated. Then several traditional objections against transcendent universals are discussed and, after consideration, found unconvincing.
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