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    It is not the case that Sentences like 'Redness is a property' and 'The north-of relation holds between San Francisco and Los Angeles' commit us to the existence of the property of redness and the north-of relation

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    • 1.Singular term position in a grammatical sentence does not entail ontological commitment to a corresponding entity (Quine, 'On What There Is').
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    • 2.Paraphrase strategies can eliminate apparent reference to abstract entities while preserving the truth-conditions of such sentences.
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    • 3.Only existentially quantified sentences in a regimented canonical notation—not surface grammar—reveal genuine ontological commitments.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Predicate nominalism holds that 'Redness is a property' is true in virtue of red particulars resembling one another, not in virtue of a shared universal.
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    • 2.A sentence can be true without its grammatical subjects denoting mind-independent abstract objects, as trope theory and ostrich nominalism both demonstrate.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.These sentences contain singular terms that denote the property of redness and the north-of relation
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    • 2.These sentences are true
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