This is Volume II of six in a collection on Epistemology. Originally published in 1972, the central concern of this book is the understanding of the nature of t

Things are particulars and their qualities are universals, but do universals have an existence distinct from the particular things describable by those terms? A

The heart of philosophy is metaphysics, and at the heart of the heart lie two questions about existence. What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does