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    Expression types such as 'red' exist — Carmelics
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    Expression types such as 'red' exist

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    • 1.We are ontologically committed to that over which we quantify
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    • 2.Our theories quantify over expression types
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    • 1.Quine's criterion of ontological commitment applies only to indispensable quantification, not merely convenient theoretical shorthand.
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    • 2.Quantification over expression types in linguistic theory can be systematically paraphrased away using only tokens and resemblance relations.
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    • 3.If a posit is eliminable without loss of explanatory power, ontological commitment to it is not genuinely incurred.
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    • 1.Nominalists like Goodman and Quine demonstrated that type-talk is a façon de parler reducible to claims about concrete inscriptions and sounds.
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    • 2.Abstract objects like types, if they exist, must be causally inert and thus cannot explain why any particular token has the properties it does.
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    Abstract objects like types, if they exist, must be causally inert and thus cann...If a posit is eliminable without loss of explanatory power, ontological commitme...Nominalists like Goodman and Quine demonstrated that type-talk is a façon de par...Our theories quantify over expression types
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    Realism is the most natural view in the debate with nominalism, because as we saw in some detail in §2 type talk is ubiquitous. That is, we talk as though there are types in philosophy, science and everyday life. To say that we talk as though there are types is not to invoke the traditional argument for universals, which is that a sunset and a rose are both red, so they have something in common; and this something can only be the property of being red; so properties exist. Quine (1953) convinced
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