Me either, especially when I've already answered your question.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:17 pmI don't want to keep typing and typing with us getting nowhere.RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:14 pm There is nothing ontological about such classifications (no mystical Platonic essences),
They do not, "exist," anymore than history, or science, or literature, or language, or any other invention of human minds exists. As I wrote:Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 2:17 pm The classifications exist, don't they? Otherwise, how are there the classifications in the first place?
Just as there was no such thing as the Greek language or mathematics until human beings created them, there are no classes, categories, or universals, until human beings invent them.Many existents have attributes similar to other existents, and it is epistemologically practical to identify all such existents as categories or classes of existents (universals). There is nothing ontological about such classifications.