KnowraUniversalsLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Universals, each with the reason it gives.All 10Related 6Narrower topic 1Compared with 3NominalismCompared with: Nominalism rejects universals as independently existing entities shared by particulars.William of OckhamRelated: Whether universals exist independently of individual things was central to Ockham’s dispute with realism.Buddhist epistemologyCompared with: Buddhist apoha theory rejects real universals while explaining how general terms function.Peter AbelardRelated: The status of universals was a central problem in Abelard’s philosophy of language and knowledge.Porphyry of TyreRelated: Porphyry asks whether genera and species exist independently or only in thought.Buddhist logicCompared with: Buddhist nominalist accounts reject real universals that other Indian schools use to explain inference.Medieval philosophyRelated: Medieval disputes asked whether universals exist independently, in things, or only in thought.Platonic realismNarrower topic: Platonic Forms are a realist account of universals, treated as independent of their instances.Quality (philosophy)Related: Shared qualities such as redness are often analyzed as universals.Theoretical philosophyRelated: Their existence raises competing accounts of what the world contains.