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published on December 1, 2023
D. Goldstick
https://doi.org/10.5840/ipq20231129219
Towards a Defensible Nominalism
Only concreta are causative, though other things can play a passive part in enabling them to do the causing that they do. Nonconcreta¡ªplatonic universals included¡ªare
just the instrumental and ethical values of concreta. There is no sense of the word in which both concreta and nonconcreta ¡°exist¡±; but, coining one, we can say nothing ¡°exists,¡± in that coined sense, over and above concreta, their vicissitudes and their values. That is nominalism.