Alexander, “On the Common Universal Things”
Alexander of Aphrodisias. “On the Common Universal Things and That They Are Not Being by Themselves.” Trans. İlyas Altuner. Entelekya Logico-Metaphysical Review 4, no. 2 (2020): 113-118. Alexander’s views on universals are, it seems, quite important in the history of western philosophy. When Boethius gives in his second commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge his solution to the problem of universals as he conceived it, he claims to be adopting Alexander’s approach.…