Lexicon of Arguments

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III 93
Abstract entities/ontology/ontological commitment/Field: E.g. when I say there are only finitely many grains of sand, I need just to accept as little abstract entities, as when I say, there are less than 87 grains of sand - ... + ...
>Sorites, >Vagueness, >Ontological commitment.
Solution / Field: "abstract counterparts": Function as an abstract counterpart to the assertion that "there are at least 87".
>Quantifiers.

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