Let's discuss the idea that there are no such things as properties, just lots of things which are more or less similar

“Platonic Realism: Imagine a master blueprint stored in a cloud server. Every red chair on Earth is an imperfect physical download of that single, central blueprint. Aristotelian Realism: Imagine a single file saved directly onto multiple local hard drives at once. The identical software exists simultaneously across distinct physical locations.”

“Can two distinct entities be unified by something that is not itself an entity, or does any non-relational tie ultimately collapse into a mere verbal trick?”

“One over Many”

“Ostrich Nominalism”

“Bradley's Regress: Formulated by F.H. Bradley, if an object 𝑎 a instantiates a universal 𝐹 F, there must be a tie or relation of instantiation holding them together. But if instantiation is itself a relational universal, it requires a higher-order relation to connect it to 𝑎 a and 𝐹 F, triggering a vicious infinite regress. Nominalism avoids this by refusing to treat instantiation as an extra entity in the universe.”

“By refusing to multiply entities beyond necessity—a strict application of Ockham's Razor—nominalism keeps ontology aligned with naturalistic science.”

“Realism creates an unbridgeable explanatory gap between the abstract realm of properties and human cognitive mechanisms.”