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    Supports→Meinongianism does not provide a view clearly distinct from platonism, but merely creates the illusion of a different view by altering the meaning of 'exist'.

    Any theory requiring quantification over non-spatiotemporal objects bears the same ontological commitments as platonism, regardless of the label applied to those objects.

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    • 1.Ontological commitment is determined by what a theory's logical form requires to exist, not by terminological distinctions applied post-hoc.
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    • 2.Non-spatiotemporal objects in any theory function identically to abstract objects in platonism: they exist mind-independently and causally inert.
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    • 3.Relabeling non-spatiotemporal entities as 'logical constructs' or 'linguistic conventions' doesn't eliminate their required existence in formal semantics.
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    • 1.Quantification over entities in a formal language may not entail ontological commitment if those variables range over instrumental fictions or conventional proxies.
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    • 2.Platonism makes specific claims about mind-independence and causal inertness; theories quantifying over abstracta need not endorse these additional metaphysical theses.
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    • 3.Different explanatory roles and justificatory standards for non-spatiotemporal objects create meaningful ontological distinctions despite shared logical form.
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