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    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika realists such as Uddyotakara explicitly argued that universal properties (sāmānya) inhere in substances as real, mind-independent features, providing a historically grounded alternative ontology.

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    Key Terms

    Inhere(as used in metaphysics)
    To exist as a permanent part of something else; for example, the color of a ball inheres in the ball itself.
    Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika(as a philosophical tradition)
    Two ancient Indian philosophical schools that joined together; they focused on logic, reasoning, and understanding what's real in the world.
    Ontology(Carnap argues this enterprise is based on a mistake)
    The philosophical discipline that tries to answer hard questions about what there really is.
    Uddyotakara(the specific philosopher being cited for this argument)
    An Indian philosopher from around the 7th century who defended and developed Nyāya realism, arguing that our perceptions can reliably tell us about the real world.
    Universal properties (sāmānya)

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    (as a concept in metaphysics)
    Qualities that many different things share—like 'redness' that belongs to both apples and fire trucks, rather than being unique to just one object.
    mind-independent(Used to classify objects such as tables and chairs.)
    An object is mind-independent if its existence does not, by its very nature, depend on being the object or content of mental states, i.e., it could survive the annihilation of all thinking things.
    substances(Used to distinguish the category of substance from that of property in ontology.)
    Individual objects; the entities that properties are predicated of.

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