Nominalism and Comparative Similarity

Erkenntnis 83 (4):793-803 (2018)
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Nominalism about attributes has serious difficulties in accounting for truths involving abstract nouns. Prominent among such truths are statements of comparative similarity among attributes. This paper argues that one cannot account for the truth of such statements without invoking attributes.

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10.1007/s10670-017-9914-2

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Byeong-uk Yi
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