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    Supports→If propositions have properties as components, those properties must be transcendent, platonist properties rather than immanent properties.

    Propositions can have properties as components that are not instantiated in the physical world.

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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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