id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 5425k932890 Kenneth Ardrey Boyce Towards a Fictionalist Nominalism 2013 .txt text/plain 340 17 54 Neo-Quinean objectors to nominalism argue (to a first approximation) that we seem antecedently committed to endorsing various sentences that can be shown to imply that abstract objects exist. It follows, they claim, that we are (on pain of logical inconsistency) 'committed' to the existence of abstract objects. cache/5425k932890.txt txt/5425k932890.txt