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| | Ferrater Mora: The Essayist: Fictions, Universals, and Abstract Entities |
 | | The notions, “physical entity,” “person,” and “objectification,” are not easy to elucidate, and in any case I am afraid that no amount of elucidation would free them entirely from the suspicion that they are sweeping, sketchy, inadequate, or plainly wrong. |
 | | In so far as they are objectifications, abstract entities do not, as it were, “preexist” their discovery and formulation; numbers or classes, for example are constructionspossibly along lines suggested by mathematical intuitionists. |
 | | In contrast with other objectifications, however, abstract entities and, in general, what I have called “objecivities” (among which we may include values) are not, except from the genetic point of view, “historical.” I will call them “recurrent constructions,” in the sense that they recur in the same way every time that they are produced. |
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