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God and Abstract Objects (various positions) (Realist (AO exists)…
God and Abstract Objects (various positions)
Realist (AO exists)
Platonism
Heavyweight Platonism
AOs are uncreated independent entities
Lightweight Platonism (something like Ab creationism or Divine conceptualism)
Strongest argument: The Indispensibility Argument
Absolute Creationism
AOs are created by God
Modified Theistic Activism
AOs are concrete objects in minds
Divine Conceptualism
AOs are divine thoughts in the mind of God
Anti-Realist (AO do not exist)
Challenge the criterion of ontological commitment
Free Logic
neo-Meinongianism
neutralism
Talk of AOs are not literally true
Fictionalism
Figuralism
Pretence theory
Arealism (Conventionalism) (Carnap)
No objective truth about whether AOs exist