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    Every property exemplifies abstractness. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Self-exemplification exists — that is, some properties exemplify themselves.

    Every property exemplifies abstractness.

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    • 1.Properties are abstract objects.
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    • 2.Abstract objects exemplify abstractness.
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    • 1.Some properties, such as redness or warmth, are instantiated as concrete tropes inhering in particular spatiotemporal objects.
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    • 2.A property that inheres in a concrete particular thereby exemplifies concreteness, not abstractness.
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    • 3.Therefore, trope-theoretic properties falsify the universal claim that every property exemplifies abstractness.
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    • 1.On Armstrong's immanent realism, universals exist only insofar as they are instantiated in the spatiotemporal world.
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    • 2.A property that exists only within the causal-spatiotemporal nexus is not abstract in the way Platonic objects are.
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    • 3.The predicate 'exemplifies abstractness' cannot coherently apply to entities whose existence is wholly immanent.
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    Presumably, properties exemplify properties. For example, if properties are abstract objects, as is usually thought, then seemingly every property exemplifies abstractness. But then we should also grant that there is self-exemplification, i.e., a property exemplifying itself. For example, abstractness is itself abstract and thus exemplifies itself. Self-exemplification however has raised severe perplexities at least since Plato.

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