The Concept of the Universal in Some Later Pre‐Platonic Cosmologists

In Mary Louise Gill & Pierre Pellegrin, A Companion to Ancient Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 56–76 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Criteria Used for the Concept of the Universal Some Conceptual Barriers to Early Grasp of the Universal Empedocles: Formulae for Compounds; Biological Forms; Type‐Identities across Cycles Philolaus: Genus, Species, and the Relation to Particulars Democritus: An Infinity of Atomic Types, Atomic Tokens Comments by Democritus on the Universal Democritus and Aristotle: Origins of the Type–Token Distinction Democritus and Plato Bibliography.

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concept of the universal, in some later pre‐Platonic cosmologists   concept of the universal, the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle   concept of the universal undergoing transformations, “problem of universals”   concept of the universal in pre‐Socratics, the cosmologists or natural philosophers of the tradition   universal, in the thinking of the two classical philosophers, on the basis of three criteria   pluralism, being inhospitable to the concept of the universal   Aristotle and three pre‐Socratic, concept of to katholou, in Pythagoreanism   Democritus and the type–token distinction   Democritus on the universal, type–token and type1–type2 distinctions, thematic significance   Plato's ideal universe allocated to shape, a same logical structure as Democritus

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