Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Universals

The Monist 58 (1):163-172 (1974)
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The ‘theory of universals’ of St. Thomas Aquinas has been interpreted in one of two ways by most commentators. Traditionally, commentators have attributed to Thomas the theory which is usually also attributed to Aristotle: “moderate realism,” the view that universals exist in things, subject in some way to individuating principles in the things. For example, according to Copleston

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10.5840/monist19745811

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