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    The One Over Many argument alone does not motivate platonism about properties

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    • 1.Armstrong's immanent realism and Aristotelian in-re universals satisfy the One Over Many argument without positing abstract objects.
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    • 2.If a non-platonist ontology can ground predicate unity, the One Over Many argument underdetermines the platonist conclusion.
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    • 3.Underdetermination of ontological category means the argument motivates realism about properties generally, not platonism specifically.
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    • 1.Conceptualist responses, such as those developed by Kant and elaborated by Strawson, locate property-grounding in structured mental concepts.
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    • 2.If conceptualism successfully explains why 'Socrates and Plato are both human' is true, the One Over Many argument is satisfied without abstract objects.
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    • 3.An argument that admits multiple competing solutions cannot, by itself, uniquely motivate any single solution like platonism.
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    • 1.The One Over Many argument argues only that properties exist, not that properties are abstract objects
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    • 2.To motivate platonism one would need additional reasons to think properties are neither mental ideas nor immanent physical properties
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    Notice that as the argument has been stated here, it is not an argument for a platonistic view of properties; it is an argument for the thesis that properties exist, but not for the thesis that properties are abstract objects. Thus, in order to use this argument to motivate platonism, one would have to supplement it with some reason for thinking that the properties in question here could not be ideas in our heads or immanent properties existing in particular physical objects. There are a number
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