How to Individuate Universals—Or Not

Axiomathes 23 (3):551-566 (2013)
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In a recent article in this journal, J. P. Moreland extends his theory of individuation to include universals. In this note, I show how Moreland’s novel proposal leads to the unwanted conclusion that every concrete particular exists of necessity and has but a single essential property

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