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Priority Nominalism

Part of the Synthese Library Book Series (volume 397)

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95004-4

ISBN: 978-3-319-95003-7

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 7, 2018

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Many Formulations of One Problem

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 1 –18

[In this chapter, I will present some different formulations of the Problem of Universals. Basically, these formulations ask about the existence of universals, the grounding of predication and the conditions of possibility of property distribution (‘One Over Many’ and its variants). Then, I will...
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What Is It Like to Be an Ostrich?

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 19 –26

[In this chapter, I first present a very short history of contemporary Ostrich Nominalism. This short history is divided into two parts: the friends and foes of the Ostrich, i.e. some contemporary metaphysicians who have explicitly or implicitly assumed a negative or a positive attitude toward...
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Varieties of Explanation

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 27 –50

[In this chapter, some meta-metaphysical work is done. I discuss the important question of what kind of explanation the Problem of Universals demands. Since we accepted the major task of solving all main formulations of the problem, the results of this chapter will also be multiple. Each...
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Predication and Regress: In Virtue of What is a F?

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 51 –82

[This chapter deals with one of the main arguments for Priority Nominalism: the regress argumentRegress Argument against the possibility of finding an explanation for predicationpredication. Indeed, since the priority nominalist considers predication a fundamental ontological relation, regress...
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The One Over Many and Its Variations

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 83 –110

[The core of the book is presented in this chapter. In it, I offer a solution to the One Over Many problem, which is usually considered the most perspicuous way to formulate the Problem of Universals. I also solve the two variants, the Many Over OneMany Over Oneproblem and the Similar but...
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Second-Order Quantification

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 111 –140

[In this chapter, I will deal with the problem of second-order quantificationQuantificationsecond-order. I distinguish two senses of ‘second-order quantification’: (i) metaphysically second-order quantification, which occurs whenever we quantify into the position of individual variables of a...
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The Big Picture of Reality

Imaguire, Guido

Pages: 141 –165

[In this chapter, I present the big picture of reality from the perspective of Priority Nominalism. I will give some hints about how the priority nominalist comprehends different, closed questions of ontology, like the status of meanings and the problem of mereological compositionMereology....

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