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)

    Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars’ fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
    Anna Magnani (1918–1973)