Abstract

ISTVAN, Michael. Nominalist analyses of an entity being charactered. discus.filos [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.21, pp.87-93. ISSN 0124-6127.

This paper is intended primarily as a reference tool for participants in the debate between realism and nominalism concerning universals. It provides an exhaustive catalogue of the basic analyses of an entity being charactered that nominalists can employ in both a constituent and nonconstituent ontology.

Keywords : constituent ontology; nominalism; nonconstituent ontology; particular; problem of universals; property; universals.

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