*Real* vs *Realism* *Scientific Realism* # Object Realism vs Nominalism > [!quote] [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#AntNom) >  Let *object realism* be the view that there exist abstract mathematical objects. Object realism is thus just the conjunction of **Existence** and **Abstractness**. Object realism stands opposed to _nominalism_, which in contemporary philosophy is typically defined as the view that there are no abstract objects. > [!jee] > I am not capturing the right scientific / philosophical word here, but I'm going to use the term *Object Realism* to refer to the belief that abstract objects exist. # Reified Object