- Predicate application(as what small differences supposedly cannot affect)
- The act of deciding whether a descriptive word actually applies to something or not—for example, whether calling someone 'bald' is accurate.
- Primitive resemblance relations(as the foundation of the theory)
- Basic, irreducible facts about how objects can look similar or alike to each other, without needing to be explained by anything deeper.
- Resemblance nominalism(metaphysics/philosophy of properties)
- A philosophical view that objects can be similar to each other without needing to share any deeper underlying properties—similarity is just a basic fact that doesn't need further explanation.
- Rodriguez-Pereyra(named as the originator of the principle being discussed)
- A contemporary philosopher who has written about how truth relates to what exists in the world.
- The One over Many problem(as a philosophical problem)
- A classic puzzle asking how many individual things can all share the same quality—for example, how can multiple red objects all be 'red' in the same way?
- grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
- A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
- nominalism(Metaphysics; opposed to realism about universals)
- The view that abstract entities such as properties or universals do not exist, and that predicative facts must be explained without appealing to such entities.
- particulars(Buddhist epistemology (pramāṇa theory))
- The actual objects of the world that are directly accessible only through perception and are ineffable — they cannot be captured or referred to by words