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GROUNDUP ONTOLOGY: A CARTESIAN PERSPECTIVE & EXEMPLIFICATIONS IN SCIENCE (pages 185-204)

Mark MALLER ABSTRACT: The first pathway toward a new conceptualist answer to the existence of universals begins with Descartes. The article is guided by a Cartesian method of starting anew in metaphysics and our knowledge of mind-dependent universals. Relevant examples and learning experiments defend and validate the pragmatic utility of conceptualism. It is past time for analytic ontology to set …

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