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Competing Universalities

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Is There a Universal, or a Particular?

There are two even more current examples of this reign of the particular, and I think it's the first one would be assemblage theory. The other one is new materialism, or new real-ish or speculative realism,. Like I think our objectorian on ontology, I guess, is Graham Harmon. He doesn't, he rejects materialism now, I guess. But anyway, objectorianOntology, like that idea, it's utterly particularist. Its claim is that there are only particulars, and that we bring the particulars together to make an object, and then that's a real object. That's where the violent move is, not in the appeal to the universal.

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