Where are universals made?

Question

Where are universals made?

Answer 1

In Santa's workshop.

Answer 2

Universals are grown-not made. It starts with experience, things that repeat. Then the human mind takes over. Certain irreversible connections are established: Socrates is a man. All men are human. Socrates is a man and therefore Socrates is human. Also, Socrates can not be both non human and a man at the same time. Euclid's geometry: two parallel lines do not meet. Therefore, two parallel lines will never meet until non-Euclidean geometry is created/discovered and then parallel lines intersect. Descartes: I think, therefore I am, or, at least because I doubt that I exist, I must exist. Sartre: existence precedes essence. We have come full circle. Universals are grown-not made. And they can outgrow their usefulness in a particular context, but they can never outgrow their usefulness for knowledge because knowledge is based upon them. But, the garden continues to grow!  

Answer 3

They were forged deep within the optimistic lecture halls of the continental rationalists where logic and reason sparkled.

Nowadays, we have cast them away into the fiery pit of Existentialism.