{"id":64,"date":"2007-10-06T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-06T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-10-06T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T20:55:00","slug":"theism-platonism-and-abstract-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/theism-platonism-and-abstract-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Theism, Platonism, and Abstract Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=38436816&#038;postID=8924547165528914174\">the comments section<\/a> of a recent post at one of Victor Reppert&#8217;s blogs I&#8217;ve been engaged in a very interesting and stimulating conversation with a fellow who calls himself &#8216;exapologist&#8217; about the status of abstract objects (propositions, numbers, sets, etc.). I&#8217;m arguing for theistic conceptualism (abstract objects exist necessarily as ideas in the mind of God). Exapologist is arguing for a form of Platonism (abstract objects exist necessarily independently of anything else, including God).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments section of a recent post at one of Victor Reppert&#8217;s blogs I&#8217;ve been engaged in a very interesting and stimulating conversation with a fellow who calls himself &#8216;exapologist&#8217; about the status of abstract objects (propositions, numbers, sets, etc.). I&#8217;m arguing for theistic conceptualism (abstract objects exist necessarily as ideas in the mind\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/theism-platonism-and-abstract-objects\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanrhoda.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}