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Comment author: cousin_it 04 September 2014 12:52:22PM *  1 point [-]

The question is more about your beliefs about marbles, and what would happen if you tried to extrapolate those beliefs all the way. My argument is that some parts of Platonism wouldn't survive such extrapolation.