The Particular-Universal Distinction: A Reply to MacBride
Edward Jonathan Lowe · dialectica · 2004
In this brief reply to Fraser MacBride's critical examination of the four-category ontology and the place within it of the particular - universal distinction, it is argued that the prospects for identifying the four basic ontological categories in terms of the characteristic patterns of ontological dependency between entities belonging to the different categories are rather more promising than MacBride suggests.