Lainaus "John F Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>: (01)
> For a more detailed argument for the existence of abstract entities,
> see the following article by Peter van Inwagen:
>
> http://andrewmbailey.com/pvi/Theory_of_Properties.pdf
> A theory of properties (02)
The central messages in the article are that (1) the existence of
properties does not require platonism/transcendentalism: this-worldly
properties are completely enough; (2) we still need to talk about
uninstantiated properties and properties for which it is not known if
they will ever be instantiated: the uninstantiated properties are only
abstract linguistic entities. D.M. Armstrong uses the term 'universal'
for properties which have been, are, or will be instantiated. This is
a good convention that separates uninstantiated properties from the
instantiated ones. (03)
Avril (04)
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