ABSTRACT
Even though we can never provide anything approaching a complete description of a “slice of reality”, we can always give it a name; we can characterise it in individual terms. Here, once again, we encounter the problem of universals. We have established already 2 that it is impossible to replace an individual concept, or to identify an individual unambiguously, by any number of universals. We encounter the same opposition in the relationship between “event” and “slice of reality”; for if we could describe a “slice of reality” unambiguously, we could replace its name by a description.
