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    Armstrong's immanent realism demonstrates that any nomina... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Quinean nominalists can block the One Over Many argument by appealing to bruteness in a more subtle way

    Armstrong's immanent realism demonstrates that any nominalist appeal to brute predication still requires a truthmaker, which bare particulars cannot provide.

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    • 1.Truthmaker theory requires every truth to correspond to something in reality that makes it true.
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    • 2.Bare particulars lack properties and cannot ground facts about what properties objects instantiate.
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    • 3.Nominalists cannot avoid predicating properties; denying truthmakers leaves predication conceptually ungrounded.
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    • 1.Nominalists can appeal to primitive facts about objects that don't require separate truthmakers beyond the objects themselves.
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    • 2.Truthmaker theory itself is controversial; rejecting it avoids the demand that bare particulars provide truthmakers.
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    • 3.Armstrong's reliance on abstract universals generates equal metaphysical concerns about how universals relate to particulars.
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