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    The created/discovered dichotomy conflates epistemic acce... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Dance is ill-suited for analysis under a Platonic ontology of art

    The created/discovered dichotomy conflates epistemic access with ontological status, leaving room for a Platonism about created abstracta as defended by Levinson and Thomasson.

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    • 1.Epistemic access (how we know things) is logically distinct from ontological status (what exists), so conflating them commits a category error.
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    • 2.Artifacts like symphonies can be genuinely created yet remain abstract objects with determinate properties independent of mental states.
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    • 3.Platonism about created abstracta avoids both pure Platonism's puzzle of causation and nominalism's inability to ground mathematical discourse.
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    • 1.If abstracta are created, they cannot possess the mind-independence and necessity characteristic of paradigmatic abstract objects like numbers.
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    • 2.The claim dissolves the distinction between abstract and concrete; if abstracta depend on human creation, they're really dependent particulars.
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    • 3.Thomasson's account conflates conceptual dependence with ontological dependence, making created abstracta closer to social constructs than objects.
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