Universals Exist

Famous quotes containing the words universals and/or exist:

    The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Better not to exist than live basely.
    Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)