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Abstract Objects, Causal Efficacy, and Causal Exclusion.

Abstract objects are standardly taken to be causally inert, but this claim is rarely explicitly argued for. In the context of his platonism about musical works, in order for musical works to be audible, Julian Dodd argues that abstracta are causally efficacious in virtue of their concrete tokens par...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 83; no. 4; pp. 805 - 828
Main Author: Juvshik, Tim
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Aug2018
Subjects:
Theory of knowledge
Causal models
Abstract thought
Platonists
Argument
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