if there were no concrete entities, I couldn't make statements at all, of either the true or false variety.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine
Daniel Davies  writes:  
I don't think this would be right.  For example, if there were no concrete entities, there would still be an abstract entity called "the set of all concrete entities", and you could make true or false statements about it (like "it's an empty set").  If you were a Platonist.
 
 JKS writes: >I don't see what is so problematic about the idea of abstract entities. 
 
I wrote:
I would guess that abstract "entities" don't exist separate from concrete entities. Rather, they are characteristics of the latter.

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