{"id":1897,"date":"2018-04-11T06:26:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2018-04-11T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T18:49:30","slug":"are-there-such-a-thing-as-universals-and-do-they-exist-outside-of-our-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/11\/are-there-such-a-thing-as-universals-and-do-they-exist-outside-of-our-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there such a thing as &#8220;universals&#8221;, and do they exist outside of our minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04112018-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1890\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AW04112018-3-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"Are there such a thing as &quot;universals&quot;, and do they exist outside of our minds?\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are there such a thing as &#8220;universals&#8221;, and do they exist outside of our minds?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;d sort of like to believe that there is a concept Wall that exists separately from all the numberless walls that exist, but I&#8217;ve always been a Platonist. It&#8217;s a hard question, and there are lots of possible answers and arguments to be made. Here are a few from a good source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-universals\">bit.ly\/bc-universals<\/a>. If you&#8217;d like more suggestions, turn around and ask the humans at the desk to your right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sort of like to believe that there is a concept Wall that exists separately from all the numberless walls that exist, but I&#8217;ve always been a Platonist. It&#8217;s a hard question, and there are lots of possible answers and arguments to be made. Here are a few from a good source: bit.ly\/bc-universals. If you&#8217;d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/04\/11\/are-there-such-a-thing-as-universals-and-do-they-exist-outside-of-our-minds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are there such a thing as &#8220;universals&#8221;, and do they exist outside of our minds?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-universals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}