Abstract: How the British Empiricist philosophers conceived the problem of universals is clearly brought out by the following words of Locke: "Since all things that exist are merely particulars, how come we by general terms?"1 For Locke, as for his successors Berkeley and Hume, the problem is to explain the use of general terms in a manner compatible with there being nothing in the world but particulars.
Publication Year: 1972
Publication Date: 1972-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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