Meta Ontology

The article considers, in a historical setting, the links between varieties of nominalism---the extreme nominalism of the Quine-Goodman variety and the trope nominalism current today---and types of idealism. In so doing arguments of various twentieth century figures, including Husserl, Bradley, Russell, and Sartre, as well as a contemporary attack on relations by Peter Simons are critically examined. The paper seeks to link the rejection of realism about universals with the rejection of a mind-independent ''world''---in short, linking nominalism with idealism