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In the present chapter we discuss some of the major responses to Benacerraf’s dilemma. In particular, we will discuss some of those that in § 3.3 have been classified, following Hale and Wright (2000), as non-conservative. We will consider four of these: Field’s nominalism; fic-tionalism, both in Field’s and in Yablo’s version; Hellman’s eliminative modal structuralism; and the version of platonism advanced by Maddy on cognitive grounds.
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© 2013 Marco Panza and Andrea Sereni
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Panza, M., Sereni, A. (2013). Non-conservative Responses to Benacerraf’s Dilemma. In: Plato’s Problem. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298133_5
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