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Ordinary, non-metaphorical, exemplification is unproblematic. All of the instances of exemplification considered so far are non-metaphorical. The paint chip literally can exemplify the property of being teal since it literally is teal. The banana literally exemplifies bananahood since it really is bananoid.
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Hobbes is denying here that there are real objects, often called “universal”, which underlie our uses of language. Take bananas. We routinely apply the term “banana” to certain specimens of curvaceous yellowish soft fruit. Someone who believes that the world really contains universals will hold that there is a universal property of bananahood, which all bananas possess. But, for a nominalist like Hobbes, the only property which all bananas possess is that of being called “bananas”.
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It would be no less reasonable if we decided to aspire to perfect, pure bananahood.
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It is funnier for a second banana to play the lead than for a lead to pretend to second bananahood.
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