History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 207 - All or Nothing - The Problem of Universals
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Jan 18, 2015 AI Snips
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Marx Brothers Illustrate Shared Features
- The Marx Brothers shared family ties, upbringing, tastes, and a love/hate of being made to wait.
- Peter Adamson uses their unity to introduce the puzzle of shared features among individuals.
What Universals Do
- Universals are shared features (like humanity) that apply to all members of a class.
- They explain general claims, for example that possessing humanity implies rationality.
Plato, Aristotle, And Universals
- Plato's Forms were early attempts to explain universals as perfect paradigmatic particulars.
- Aristotle reframed universals and began the more technical medieval debate about their status.