...This chapter attempts to show that other paraphrasing suggestions, together with those presented in the previous chapter, do not work, making the nominalist’s prospects for paraphrasing away all talk of types highly improbable. In an effort to resolve this problem, “t’s are P” is suggested...

... by examining how they attempt to eliminate abstract objects. Denying the existence of types but acknowledging the possibility of their existence will help in constructing a nominalist paraphrase. Purging reliance on types, according to Goodman, takes three steps: First, the existence of abstract objects like...