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    It is not the case that Every property exemplifies 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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    • 1.Properties are abstract objects.
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    • 2.Abstract objects exemplify abstractness.
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