Defending Nihilism About Musical Works.
According to nihilism, musical works do not exist. Platonism, on the other hand, states that they do exist—qua abstract objects of some sort. Given that denying the existence of musical works is rather counterintuitive, it does not come as a surprise that nihilism is considerably less popular than p...
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