“Exemplification is a quasi-semantical relation, and it (and universals 1) is in the world only in that broad sense in which the world includes linguistic norms and roles viewed from the standpoint of a fellow paritipant."
This plays off Carnap’s notion of ‘quasi-syntactical’.
There’s the narrow view of ‘the world’, that’s the world that science is the measure of all things. And the broader view of the world.
redness, lionhood↩︎