On Oct 6, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
ravi quotes Quine:
_Realism_, as the word is used in connection with the mediaeval
controversy over universals, is the Platonic doctrine that
universals or abstract entities have being independently of the
mind; the mind may discover them but cannot create them.<<
that's his definition. There are other conceptions.
Sure. I was just making clear which one I was using.
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