ABSTRACT
The epistemological theories of the more radical of recent realists represent a consistent and thoroughgoing application of the principle of objectivity. A realist of the extreme type finds objects for all mental representations whatsoeverwhether perceptual, conceptual, imaginative, retrospective, anticipatory, or hallucinatory. Perceptual realism is the theory of the objectivity of perceptual knowledge. Similarly realism in the scholastic sense posits universals as the objects of conceptual knowledge. An analysis of the knowledge-situation at the conceptual level is, accordingly, the proper approach to the problem of universals.
