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    Meinongianism does not provide a view clearly distinct from platonism, but merely creates the illusion of a different view by altering the meaning of 'exist'.

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    • 1.Quine's criterion of ontological commitment holds that to be is to be the value of a bound variable, making existence coextensive with quantification.
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    • 2.Meinong's 'Außersein' objects still function as values of bound variables in formal reconstructions like Parsons' (1980) nuclear predication theory.
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    • 3.Any theory requiring quantification over non-spatiotemporal objects bears the same ontological commitments as platonism, regardless of the label applied to those objects.
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    • 1.Routley's noneism, the most rigorous modern Meinongian system, still requires a domain of interpretation over which variables range, including numbers and properties.
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    • 2.The theoretical work done by positing non-existent abstract objects in noneism—grounding mathematical truth, enabling reference—is identical to the work abstract objects do in platonism.
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    • 3.When two theories posit items playing structurally identical roles grounding identical truths, Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles implies the theories describe the same ontology under different terminology.
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    • 1.On the standard meaning of 'exist', any object that has any being at all exists.
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    • 2.According to standard usage, Meinongianism entails that numbers and universals exist.
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    • 3.Meinongianism does not take numbers and universals to exist in spacetime.
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    Meinongianism has been almost universally rejected by philosophers. The standard argument against it (see, e.g., Quine (1948), p. 3, and Lewis (1990)) is that it does not provide a view that is clearly distinct from platonism and merely creates the illusion of a different view by altering the meaning of the term ‘exist’. The idea here is that on the standard meaning of ‘exist’, any object that has any being at all exists, and so according to standard usage, Meinongianism entails that numbers and
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