Discussion
According to Aristotle, universals are :
Answer: B
For Aristotle, universals are immanent in the particulars.
Aristotle rejected Plato's separate world of Forms. For him the universal, the form or essence, exists only in individual things: humanity exists in individual human beings, not apart from them. The mind grasps the universal by abstracting it from the particulars in which it exists.
'Transcendent to particulars' is Plato's view, which Aristotle criticised. 'Concepts in the mind' is conceptualism, and 'names in language' is nominalism, both later positions associated with medieval and modern thinkers such as Ockham.
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