The Universal Categories of Water

If you actually do believe in science, then it's going to then pre suppositionally demand these various realist positions on ethics and metaphysics. So we're talking about water yeah there's a lot of different molecules that come together to form water but water is a universal category both ontologically but also captured by the mind itself. Therefore, you can't be a nominalist and reject the universal categories in favor of the many representations because you're saying all these things come together if you're going to be logically consistent in this worldview.

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