(March 23, 2015 at 11:08 pm)Nestor Wrote: Interesting, to say the least. I'm not really sure in what way they exist, except that they're abstract but seem to have properties that don't depend on their existing in minds.I'm agnostic on this issue. I can see the merits of realism(more than one version of this, ditto for the other views), conceptualism, and nominalism.
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