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    It is not the case that If reference does not entail existence, then a sentence referring to Gness is not automatically untrue merely because Gness lacks being in the nominalist's inventory.

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    • 1.If 'Gness' refers to nothing in any inventory, the sentence lacks a semantic value—reference failure entails truth-value gap, not indeterminate truth.
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    • 2.Nominalists reject abstract objects; treating Gness-sentences as true anyway requires covert commitment to propositions or abstract reference conditions.
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    • 3.Decoupling reference from existence removes the constraint preventing contradictory sentences about non-existent objects from being equally true.
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    • 1.We successfully use empty-referent sentences (e.g., 'Sherlock Holmes is clever') with determinate truth conditions without ontological commitment.
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    • 2.Nominalism's inventory restrictions don't constrain what linguistic expressions can meaningfully refer to or describe.
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    • 3.Truth-conditions can be assigned via abstract reference schemes (fictional contexts, pretense frameworks) without positing entities.
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