PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Do genera and species, as long as they remain such, require that the subject they name have some reality or, if all the things they designate were destroyed, could the universal consist simply in its significance for the mind, as would be the case with the name "rose" when no roses are in bloom which it could designate in general?
- If the particulars have ceased to exist, then the universal is no longer a name. Nevertheless, the word retains meaning.