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This Coda reflects upon some of the immediate consequences of the genealogy of universals in early analytic philosophy undertaken here. First consequence: that the particular–universal distinction cannot credibly be claimed to be obvious or intuitive or a truism because it was far from inevitable that the distinction should have become entrenched in contemporary analytic philosophy. Second consequence: that we should be open, as Wittgenstein and Ramsey were, but Peirce and Russell and Armstrong were not, to the possibility that unity, whether of a fact or a proposition or complex whatever, is achieved collectively by the mutual collaboration of elements so unified without there being a privileged element, a relation or universal, there to unify the rest.
Title: Coda
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This Coda reflects upon some of the immediate consequences of the genealogy of universals in early analytic philosophy undertaken here.
First consequence: that the particular–universal distinction cannot credibly be claimed to be obvious or intuitive or a truism because it was far from inevitable that the distinction should have become entrenched in contemporary analytic philosophy.
Second consequence: that we should be open, as Wittgenstein and Ramsey were, but Peirce and Russell and Armstrong were not, to the possibility that unity, whether of a fact or a proposition or complex whatever, is achieved collectively by the mutual collaboration of elements so unified without there being a privileged element, a relation or universal, there to unify the rest.