Boethius against Universals: The Arguments in the Second Commentary on Porphyry
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A study of the part of Boethius' Second Commentary on Porphyry where he presents the case against metaphysical universals. The paper discusses: (a) where Boethius got his famous three-part description of a universal as something present as a whole, simultaneously and in some appropriate metaphysically intimate way to several things at once, (b) the curious and little-explored "infinite regress" argument contained in the passage, and (c) the overall structure of the passage, how the various arguments are related to one another.
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Boethius, universals, problem of universals, Porphyry, Alexander of Aphrodisias, moderate realism, Isagoge, Categories, quaestio, question, infinite regress, A Survey of Mediaeval Philosophy, Peter King, Philosophy, medieval philosophy, Middle Ages, exposition of Aristotle's Categories by Question and Answer, common, inheritance, genus, species, genera, genera and species, Contra Eutychen, abstraction, realism, nominalism, collection, properties of properties