Brian Ellis advances a robust species of realism he calls Physical Realism. Physical Realism includes an ontology comprising three kinds of universal and three kinds of particular: a six-category ontology. After comparing Physical Realism to a modest two-category ontology inspired by Locke, I mention two apparent difficulties a proponent of a six-category ontology might address.1
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