ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Professor Stout's Hertz Lecture to the British Academy on 'The Nature of Universals and Propositions'. He advocates some view, which he seems to think can be properly expressed by the words: There are two main points that includes: the first is as to what precisely he means by the expression is particular in the sentence. 'Every character which characterizes either a concrete thing or a concrete individual is particular and not universal'. And as to how, precisely, he uses the term 'character'. The chapter discusses the view which he expresses by those words. It had not to give to the words the sense or senses which one may think they ought to bear, and then to discuss whether the view or views they would then express is true or false. In other words, Professor Stout is talking, quite unjustifiably, as if absolutely specific characters could alone be properly called 'characters'.
