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Do universals exist? And if they exist, do they exist only in our mind or do they also enjoy an existence independent of our thinking? And if they exist in reality, do they appear only in and on concrete particular things or do they enjoy a separate existence? Ever since ancient times these problems have been among the most heatedly discussed problems of metaphysics. Even today we have not yet satisfactorily answered the question as to whether, beside the things of the real world, we also have to accept objects of an entirely different kind, such as, for example, ideal forms, unrealized possibilities, and values.
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Stegmüller, W. (1977). The Problem of Universals Then and Now. In: Collected Papers on Epistemology, Philosophy of Science and History of Philosophy. Synthese Library, vol 91. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1129-7_1
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