| Abelard defends his thesis that universals are nothing but words by arguing that ontological realism about universals is incoherent. |
| The point is that the oil and water of logorrheic brinksmanship and the drive towards hidden universals can coexist. |
| For example, one might want to divide the category of universals into the two sub-categories of properties and relations. |
| Secondly, are the universals of human nature claimed by academic psychology more accurately seen as Western or Euroamerican patterns? |
| The Idea is composed of universals, general concepts, whereas Nature comprises myriads of particular things. |
| If we move from universals to concepts in general, we can see how category theory could be useful even in cognitive science. |
