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Comments on Ontology Made Easy
 by Amie Thomasson

Ontology Made Easy is a wonderful book. It vindicates the disquiet felt by many people about contemporary metaphysical wrangles over the existence of numbers, propositions, ‘arbitrary sums’, and the like. Yet it does not require the reader to countenance anti-realism, relativism, or multiple types of existence. It even leaves some honest toil for metaphysicians to do once the dust has settled, so long as we do not get ideas above our station. Thomasson provides a powerful critique of mainstream approaches to ontology, and I am tempted to suggest an alternative title for future reprints: ‘Ontologists Made Uneasy’.