Universals - History vs Rand

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I am reading Richard Rubenstein's book Aristotle's Children (Amazon link), which was recommended at the TAS/Free Minds seminar. I invite the reader to read pages 110-113 concerning the debate about universals around 1100 AD. It is available on Google Books. You can use this link and then click on "page 110" to navigate.

I then invite the reader to compare the accounts of nominalism and conceptualism presented there to those presented by Ayn Rand on page 2 of Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology.

In his article Conceptualism in Abelard and Rand here Peter Saint-Andre likens Abelard's and Rand's positions. He classifies Rand as a conceptualist, and I agree.