Rayo and Yablo's work on nominalistic paraphrase shows that apparent entailments to abstracta can be blocked without loss of content, undermining the account's claim to capture implicit commitment.

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Entailments(as logical consequences): A logical consequence or necessary implication; if a statement entails something, that thing must be true whenever the original statement is true.
Loss of content(as a potential problem with translation or paraphrasing): When you change how you express an idea but accidentally remove or change its meaning in the process; the concern here is whether a rewording preserves what you originally meant to say.
Nominalistic paraphrase(as a philosophical strategy): A way of rewording statements so they don't seem to require abstract objects (like numbers or ideas) to exist—essentially, translating talk about abstract things into talk about concrete, physical things only.
Rayo and Yablo(as philosophers whose work is being discussed): Contemporary philosophers who work on logic and metaphysics; they've developed arguments about how we can talk about abstract things (like numbers or properties) without necessarily committing ourselves to believing they really exist.

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