The idea that universals are, in some sense, ‘located’ in particulars generated two distinctive objections to the theory. Diṅnāga trades on the spatial metaphor to argue that the Nyāya conception of universals is incoherent. For, if a universal is ‘unitary’, it can be located in at most one place, and thus not ‘plurally instanced’. If, conversely, if is located simultaneously at many places, that can only be because it has parts, each located at a different place, and hence is not ‘unitary’. Thi