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I 97
Sets/BigelowVsNominalism/Bigelow/Pargetter: if he eliminated quantities, they would come in again through the rules of composition through the back door.
>Sets, >Set theory, >Platonism.
I 98
Example instead of
refers to the set of rabbits
he could say
applies to all and only rabbits.
"All and only"/Bigelow/Pargetter/(s): is a nominalistic avoidance of sets.
BigelowVsNominalism: one could say that this is just an abbreviation for "the crowd of all and only rabbits".
To apply/BigelowVsNominalism/Bigelow/Pargetter: "applies" needs to be discussed further before this paraphrase could prove anything ontologically.
((s) "applies to" = "true-of", >Satisfaction.
((s) BigelowVsQuine.)
>Semantic ascent.
Sets/Bigelow/Pargetter: whether you believe in them is one of those things. The semantics does not decide on this.

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