Moderate realism as a position in the debate on the
metaphysics of
universals holds that there is no realm in which universals exist (against
platonism, nor do they really exist within the individuals
as universals, but rather universals really exist within the particulars
as individualised, and multiplied. They exist as universals only as objects of our intellect, due to abstraction.
It is opposed to both full-blooded realism, such as the theory of Platonic forms, and nominalism. Nominalists deny the existence of universals altogether, even as individualised and multiplied within the individuals.
Aristotle espoused a form of moderate realism.
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