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Ideas for 'Conceptions of Truth', 'Building Blocks of Mathematical Logic' and ''Ostrich Nominalism' or 'Mirage Realism'?'

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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
The particular/universal distinction is unhelpful clutter; we should accept 'a is F' as basic [Devitt]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta
Quineans take predication about objects as basic, not reference to properties they may have [Devitt]