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    Propositions are the referents of 'that'-clauses. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Propositions cannot be composed of properties that exist only in the mind (as conceptualists claim).

    Propositions are the referents of 'that'-clauses.

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    It is worth noting that platonists who argue for properties and relations in conjunction with propositions — i.e., by first arguing for propositions and then claiming that properties and relations are components of propositions — will have an easier time arguing that properties and relations couldn't exist in our minds (as conceptualists say) or in things (as immanent realists say). In connection with conceptualism, platonists of this sort could claim that the argument given in section 4.2 for

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