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Ideas for 'works', 'De ente praedicamentali' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 4. Abstract Existence

4239	Nominalists deny abstract objects, because we can have no reason to believe in their existence [Lowe]
	Full Idea: Nominalists tend to deny the existence of abstract objects since, given their purported nature (non-causal), we can have no reason to believe in their existence.
	From: E.J. Lowe (A Survey of Metaphysics [2002], p.372)
	A reaction: A good point. Aristotle worried about the causal inadequacy of the Forms. My mind can conceive of a 'thing' with no causal powers, just sitting there.