Universals
One of the components of RG theory is a set of linguistic universals stated in terms of the numbered roles presented above. Such a universal is the Stratal Uniqueness Law which states that there can be "at most one 1, 2, and 3 per stratum.
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“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
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