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    It is not the case that Universals are signs of things referring to several individuals at once

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    • 1.Signs require conventional institution or mental acts of imposition; natural production alone does not confer genuine referential function.
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    • 2.Ockham demonstrated that a single mental term can perform the work of universality without requiring any shared nature beyond causal similarity.
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    • 3.If universals were merely signs, their application criteria would be arbitrary, yet we track real resemblances that constrain which individuals fall under them.
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    • 1.Frege's distinction between sense and reference shows that a term referring to multiple individuals must have determinate sense, which a purely produced sign lacks.
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    • 2.A sign that refers to several individuals at once presupposes a prior criterion of grouping, meaning the universal's unity cannot be explained by its sign-function alone.
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    • 1.Universals are naturally produced in our intellect
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    • 2.These signs refer to several individuals at once
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