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Full Idea
Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability.
Gist of Idea
Austere nominalists insist that the realist's universals lack the requisite independent identifiability
Source
Michael J. Loux (Metaphysics: contemporary introduction [1998], p.60)
Book Ref
Loux,Michael J.: 'Metaphysics: a contemporary introduction' [Routledge 2000], p.60
A Reaction
Plato's view seems to be that we don't identify universals independently. We ascend The Line, or think about the shadows in The Cave, and infer the universals from an array of particulars (by dialectic).