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    Challenges→Deflationary-truth nominalism fails to provide a way of avoiding platonism

    Deflationary-truth nominalism was supposed to avoid platonism by rejecting that anti-deflationary-truth premise

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    But there is also a second problem with deflationary-truth nominalism: it’s supposed to provide us with a way of avoiding platonism, but in fact, it doesn’t. Prima facie, it might seem that deflationary-truth nominalism does deliver a way of avoiding platonism, because the argument for platonism might seem to rely upon premise (2) above—i.e., it might seem to rely upon the anti-deflationary-truth claim that if sentences like ‘4 is even’ should be read at face value, i.e., as being of the form ‘F

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