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Published Online: Jul 23, 2025
Page range: 322 - 327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2023-0014
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A modern and influential Aristotelian conception of universals combines two ideas: that a universal is immanent in its instantiations, and that its instantiations are partly constructed by this universal. I argue that these two ideas are inconsistent on weaker assumptions than previously recognized.