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Juno_Watt comments on What do professional philosophers believe, and why? - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: RobbBB 01 May 2013 02:40PM

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Comment author: Juno_Watt 09 May 2013 10:46:42PM 0 points [-]

Besides, I have trouble understanding why one needs to differentiate between the abstract world and "the world of consciousness".

It's just a way of categorising Platoniists. Conceptualists think 3 is just a concept in their mind, Ptatonists don't.