Position
Platonic Realism
Universals are intelligible Forms independent of the changing particulars that participate in them.
Classification
- Position level
- specific
- Domains
- Metaphysics
Position on
Held by traditions
- Platonism
Question scope: The Problem of Universals
Broader position
Incompatible positions
- Moderate Realism
Question scope: The Problem of Universals
- Nominalism
Question scope: The Problem of Universals
References
- Plato, Republic and Phaedo
- Plato, Phaedo 74a–77a and 100c–e (the Equal itself and participation); Republic V, 475e–480a