How to individuate universals—or not

pp. 551-566

in: Axiomathes 23 (3), 2013.

Abstract

In a recent article in this journal, J. P. Moreland (2013) extends his theory of individuation to include universals. In this note, I show how Moreland's novel proposal leads to the unwanted conclusion that every concrete particular exists of necessity and has but a single essential property.