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| 3663 | How can you contemplate Platonic entities without causal transactions with them? |
| Full Idea: Platonism has the attendant problem of how we can succeed in thinking about and referring to entities we can have no causal transactions with. | |||
| From: Hilary Putnam (Phil of Mathematics: why nothing works [1979], Modalism) |