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    Challenges→Sentences like 'Redness is a property' and 'The north-of relation holds between San Francisco and Los Angeles' do not entail the existence of properties or relations

    Sentences like 'Mars is red' do not entail the existence of properties or relations

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    In order to make out a version of the singular term argument here, platonists would need to begin by arguing that these sentences commit us to the existence of the property of redness and the north-of relation, respectively, because (a) they have singular terms that denote those things, and (b) they are true. In order to motivate claim (a), platonists would have to refute the paraphrase-nominalist claim that sentences like (P1) and (R1) are equivalent to sentences like ‘Mars is red’ and ‘San Fra

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