(February 11, 2018 at 9:15 am)Khemikal Wrote:(February 11, 2018 at 8:49 am)SteveII Wrote: Well, for an atheist, you would be claiming that abstract objects exist independent of any world. As a theist, I would just say that these abstract objects are grounded in God. Either way, you don't need a concrete world for them to exist.
"The Universe" isn't a concrete object. It's filled with them. Every abstract object we're aware of is "grounded" in ourselves..god being one of those things. If god were a concrete object it would just be another one of the things in the universe.
If we removed all the concrete objects within the universe, what is left?