Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals

Philosophy 50 (192):145-155 (1975)
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Many philosophers have declared that everything which exists is a particular. There is a weak interpretation of this doctrine which I believe to be a true proposition, and a strong one which I believe to be false.

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