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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Presupposition and Conversational Implicature' and 'Apriority and Existence'

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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

8858	Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo]
	Full Idea: There's a tradition in philosophy of finding 'unexpected objects' in truth-conditions, such as countermodels, possible worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets and properties.
	From: Stephen Yablo (Apriority and Existence [2000], §02)
	A reaction: This is a very nice perspective on the whole matter of abstract objects. If we find ourselves reluctantly committed to the existence of something which is ontologically peculiar, we should go back to the philosophical drawing-board.