LessonsConcepts: Particular and Universal, and Six Cases of UniversalsQuiz

أو غير متناهية كأفراد الإنسان والفرس والغنم
Or without a finite limit, as in the individuals of humans, horses and sheep.

The illustrative purpose is to show indefinitely extendable multiplicity for kinds whose concepts are not confined to a pre-set count of specimens. Any new human can be human; any new horse can instantiate horsehood.

This does not assert that an actually infinite number of people or animals exists. The lesson concerns the open applicability of a universal, not an empirical census.

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Case 6: multiplicity not fixed by a finite bound

Concepts: Particular and Universal, and Six Cases of Universals

أو غير متناهية كأفراد الإنسان والفرس والغنم
Or without a finite limit, as in the individuals of humans, horses and sheep.

The illustrative purpose is to show indefinitely extendable multiplicity for kinds whose concepts are not confined to a pre-set count of specimens. Any new human can be human; any new horse can instantiate horsehood.

This does not assert that an actually infinite number of people or animals exists. The lesson concerns the open applicability of a universal, not an empirical census.