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    The term 'homo' is properly common. — Carmelics
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    The term 'homo' is properly common.

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    • 1.'Homo' signifies in a universal mode.
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    • 2.'Homo' signifies a common nature existing in re.
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    • 1.Singular terms like 'Socrates' signify individual substances directly, and 'homo' similarly picks out concrete individuals, not universals.
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    • 2.Ockham's razor demands we not posit common natures in re when individual substances suffice to explain predication of 'homo'.
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    • 3.If 'homo' signified a common nature existing in re, two humans would share a numerically identical entity, generating the absurdity of one thing being in two places.
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    • 1.Frege's distinction between sense and reference shows that a term's mode of signification does not entail the mind-independent existence of the entity it presents.
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    • 2.A term can signify in a universal mode through a general concept without that concept corresponding to a shared natura communis existing outside the mind.
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    As is evident, Sharpe’s analysis of the types of universality for linguistic terms is based on two distinct but compatible criteria: (i) the existence of a common nature directly or indirectly signified by them, and (ii) the universal mode of signifying – the latter being more important than the former. Thus, based on the satisfaction of these two criteria, Sharpe himself reduces the preceding division of the kinds of universality to a threefold partition: (i) terms that signify in a universal m
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