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Are abstractions real or the objects that are abstracted from real?

Plato: The objects are real, seeing them is difficult.
Aristotle: Actually, seeing them is impossible.
Augustine: God made the objects and gave humans the capacity to speak of them.
Descartes: I agree with Auggie, except I think therefore I God.
Leibniz: Objects are the same, abstractions are different.
Kant: I am rationally bound to agree with Aristotle and Descartes.
Kierkegaard: Yes, depending on your experience.
Berkeley: The objects are thought by God.
Hegel: The objects are thinking through history.
Nietzsche: Objects are power. Reality is power.
Freud: Resistance is futile.
Heidegger: What objects?
Sartre: I agree with Soren.
Skinner: I agree with Soren too, and I’m gonna prove it.
Wittgenstein: uh…WTF?