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    It is not the case that Wollheim's and Davies's work shows that embodiment and physical instantiation are compatible with type-token Platonism, since the type remains distinct from any particular performance token.

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    • 1.If types are abstract and non-physical, they cannot causally interact with physical performances, making instantiation relation explanatorily mysterious.
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    • 2.The identity criteria for what counts as 'the same type' across tokens remains unclear without invoking substantive abstract properties.
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    • 3.Nominalist alternatives (structural patterns, conventions) explain our performance practices equally well without positing abstract types.
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    • 1.Musical works persist through multiple performances; the type-token distinction explains this constancy without requiring abstract existence.
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    • 2.Physical instantiations (performances) can fully embody a work while the work itself remains ontologically distinct from any single token.
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    • 3.Type-token Platonism avoids the problem of abstract objects causally affecting the physical world since tokens are concrete particulars.
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