Abstract objects: A case study

Philosophical Issues 12 (1):220-240 (2002)
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Stephen Yablo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Keywords platonism  ontology  fictionalism  pretense  metaphor  Walton  numbers  logic
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DOI 10.1111/j.1758-2237.2002.tb00068.x
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