10320 | If a genuine singular term needs a criterion of identity, we must exclude abstract nouns [Dummett, by Hale] |
10547 | Abstract objects can never be confronted, and need verbal phrases for reference [Dummett] |
9872 | Abstract objects need the context principle, since they can't be encountered directly [Dummett] |
18213 | Abstract objects are only applicable to the world if they are impure, and connect to the physical [Field,H] |
18498 | Abstract objects wouldn't be very popular without the implicit idea of truthmakers [Heil] |
10315 | We can't believe in a 'whereabouts' because we ask 'what kind of object is it?' [Hale] |
8915 | How we refer to abstractions is much less clear than how we refer to other things [Rosen] |