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From this point of view, universals are conceived of as the real essences common to many individual things, which are necessary conditions for our language to be significant.
The general concept white is universal, but only in the following reduced, metaphysically innocuous sense: white applies to many individual things.
Therefore, he argues that secondary substances are metaphysical entities existing outside our minds that are necessary conditions for our language to be meaningful, as general names would be meaningless if they did not signify something that both exists in reality, and have the peculiar feature of being common to (i.e., present in) many individual things.
The world seems to contain many individual things, both physical, like apples, and abstract such as love and the number 3; the former objects are called particulars.
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"There are so many threads and so many things, individual things, that happened," he said.
I had too many other selfish, individual things going through my mind.
"Since depression expresses itself in so many individual ways, the fix or thing that will help you to start your day needs to be personalized and doable," Jo explains.
We do not only speak of individual things, we speak of many things.
Many individual bishops fumed.
"A lot of individual things.
Many individual physicians share that concern.
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