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    The fact that dance is an action-structure does not entai... — Carmelics
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    The fact that dance is an action-structure does not entail that the structure itself is non-abstract; musical works are also action-structures yet Dodd mounts a sustained Platonist defense of them.

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    Dodd(as a reference to a specific philosopher)
    Julian Dodd is a contemporary philosopher who specializes in the philosophy of music and defends a particular view about what musical works are.
    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Platonist defense(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of art)
    An argument that something is abstract and exists independently of physical objects or human actions, following ideas from the ancient philosopher Plato who believed abstract forms are the most real things.
    abstract(in Zalta's definition, contrasted with primitivism)
    Not merely the negation of being concrete; rather, abstract objects are those that could not possibly be concrete (e.g., numbers, sets)

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    action-structure(Proposed as the appropriate ontological category for dance)
    An ontological category for artworks construed as physical, intentional events or actions rather than abstract eternal types
    musical works(as used in aesthetics and philosophy of art)
    In philosophy, this refers to compositions like symphonies or songs—the question is whether they're abstract objects that exist eternally or whether they only exist when performed.

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