The thinker who wrote about these entities most extensively discarded his inchoate "fictum" theory of them. The first major text discussing these entities classifies them into genus, species, differentia, proprium, and accident. English philosophers tend to use the Ness-Ity-Hood Principle to assign names to these entities. In his lecture on Lombard's Sentences, Ockham ended a prolonged attack on Duns Scotus by declaring that none of these entities exist outside of the soul. Medieval philosophers rejected the "modistic principle" that governed P
The thinker who wrote about these entities most extensively discarded his inchoate "fictum" theory of them. The first major text discussing these entities classifies them into genus, species, differentia, proprium, and accident. English philosophers tend to use the Ness-Ity-Hood Principle to assign names to these entities. In his lecture on Lombard's Sentences, Ockham ended a prolonged attack on Duns Scotus by declaring that none of these entities exist outside of the soul. Medieval philosophers rejected the "modistic principle" that governed Plato's theories about these entities. In his translation of Porphyry's Isagoge, Boethius introduced the (*) "problem" of whether these entities exist, a question hotly contested by nominalists, who deny their existence, idealists, for whom these entities are merely ideas, and realists, for whom these entities are real. For 10 points, name these abstract entities which explain how things exemplify common properties, contrasted with concrete individuals or particulars.
The thinker who wrote about these entities most extensively discarded his inchoate "fictum" theory of them.