This article develops Thomas Reid's theory of individual qualities and universals connecting his theory with recent work. Reid held that individualities, now called tropes, were the basis for our general conceptions of universals which, however, are not things that exist. His theory is related to prototype theory in psychology and to nominalist ontology.
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Lehrer, K., & Mcgee, V. (1992). Particulars, Individual Qualities, and Universals. In Language, Truth and Ontology (pp. 37–47). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2602-1_4
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