Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Reification

Is it a fallacy to assume that an abstract noun refers to something real and concrete? Maybe in some cases, but I do believe that universals are real in that the idea is given to us by God, and though the actual name attributed to the idea is arbitrary  (but later used by all), the abstraction may refer back to the spiritual/ideational source that is spiritually existing.

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