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Using my recent attempt at (partially) tabooing "exists" to translate:
Nominalism: We can't rationally care about abstract objects.
Platonism: We can rationally care about abstract objects.
So far Platonism appears to be "winning" according to this definition since UDT is Platonist in this sense, and there isn't really a "nominalist decision theory" that's equivalent or seems as promising.
That just shifts the ground to disagreeing about what is "rational" when arguing about different epistemologies.
Shifting the ground to an easier, more tractable problem? Awesome.