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    Platonism is the view that abstract objects exist — Carmelics
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    Supports→An anti-platonist view of 'that'-clauses and belief reports cannot hold that they are about sentence types

    Platonism is the view that abstract objects exist

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    We have here two different tokens of a single sentence type. Thus, a token is an actual physical thing, located at a specific place in spacetime; it is a pile of ink on a page (structured in an appropriate way), or a sound wave, or a collection of pixels on a computer screen, or something of this sort. A type, on the other hand, can be tokened numerous times but is not identical with any single token. Thus, a sentence type is an abstract object. And so if we are looking for an anti-platonist vie

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