PHIL 2370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Platonic Realism, Modal Realism, Moral Realism
7 Jul 2019
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The problem of the one and the many. How is it that di erent things be the same? by sharing the same property. One particular view has been dominant so the answer may seem obvious. Two broad categories: realist vs. anti-realist view. A universal property shared by all things instantiating that property. Most famous version of realism is platonic realism. This is his theory of the forms: The real and perfect realms is populated by the forms: eternal, changeless, abstract objects that all concrete objects participate in. Bertrand russel"s bundle theory: all concrete objects are merely bundles of universal properties. Other forms: internal realism of cs peirce, modal realism of david lewis, organic realism (process philosophy) of an whitehead, and many more. Nominalism: abstract objects have no independence existence; exist only as names that we use to describe things. Properties are just logical or linguistic entities. Problem: seems to assume at least implicitly some form of realism.
