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    It is not the case that Accepting the existence of musical works requires accepting a category of being distinct from both the 'real' and the 'ideal'.

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    • 1.Musical works are best understood as types, and types are abstract objects that can be both created and discovered, as Wolterstorff and Levinson argue.
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    • 2.If types are a species of abstract object, then the real/ideal distinction is sufficient to accommodate musical works without positing a third ontological category.
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    • 1.Nominalist accounts (e.g., Goodman's) reduce musical works to classes of compliant performances without remainder, eliminating the need for any sui generis ontological category.
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    • 2.If the logical structure of the supporting argument assumes that every musical work must be a single enduring entity, this begs the question against eliminativist and pluralist ontologies.
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    • 1.Musical works are not real objects (they cannot be identified with any particular physical sound event or score).
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    • 2.Musical works are not ideal objects (they are created, not discovered).
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    • 3.Every entity must belong to some ontological category.
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