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Philosophy Made Slightly Less Difficult: A Beginner’s Guide to Life’s Big Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Philosophy is for everyone. We think philosophically whenever we ask life’s big questions: • What is real? • How do we know what we know? • What is the right thing to do? • What does it mean to be human? • How should we view science and its claims? • Why should we believe that God exists? Philosophy is thinking critically about questions that matter. But many people find...

For the extreme nominalist, properties (e.g., redness) do not exist at all; only concrete particulars (individual red things) and the property words (e.g., the word red) true of them or the sets to which they belong (the set of all and only red things) exist. A second view of property agreement is called moderate nominalism. Advocates accept the existence of properties but hold that they are particular, individualized qualities called abstract particulars that cannot be possessed by more than one
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