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22992186 No.22992186 [Reply] [Original]

>begrudging Platonist
What does that even mean? Why begrudge what reason has lead you to conclude?

>> No.22992188

How much Plato do you even need to qualify as "a Platonist"? I'm willing to the soul's immortality, the precedence of virtue over pleasure and the perfect transcendental forms, but at the same time all the bland authoritarian shit in The Republic is a turn-off.

>> No.22992192

>>22992188
In the analytic tradition, Platonism purely means abstracta realism.

>> No.22992198

Because Platonism is an extremely hefty ontological commitment which one ought ideally to want to avoid, and there are lots of difficulties in making sense of abstract objects (e.g., Benacerraf problem).

>> No.22992201

>>22992186
I was thinking of getting some Quine for the summer, should I get Word and Object, Quiddities, or both?

>> No.22992227

>>22992198
Total Analtic Death

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22992313

Quine is literally the philosopher of austere nominalism so I doubt he was talking about the Forms but at least for me when someone says "Platonism" I instantly think of metaphysical realism of Plato

>> No.22992327

>>22992313
Quine was a nominalist about universals, but he was a realist about mathematical objects.