Abstract

This work sets out to state and evaluate G. F. Stout’s views on concrete particular things, properties, universals, etc., and to develop some of the author’s own views concerning them. It is useful to have Stout’s position described in a single monograph, for his own statements are scattered. As D. M. Armstrong indicates in a foreword, Stout’s view that the properties of and relations between concrete things are particulars rather than universals is important as the main explicit statement of a position which has had a kind of submerged existence in philosophy without much explicit advocacy, though I might note that Husserl comes nearer to it than one might expect if one only knows of him as a philosopher of essences.