The picture of reality as an amorphous lump

In Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary debates in metaphysics. Malden, MA: Blackwell. pp. 382--96 (2008)
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(1) Abstract objects. The nominalist (as the label is used today) denies that there exist abstract objects. The platonist holds that there are abstract objects. One example is numbers. The nominalist denies that there are numbers; the platonist typically affirms it.

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original Eklund, Matti (2008) "The picture of reality as an amorphous lump". In Sider, Theodore, Hawthorne, John, Zimmerman, Dean W., Contemporary debates in metaphysics, pp. : Blackwell (2008)

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