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  • This conflates several points. X being /essential/ to A neither means nor implies that X "flows from" A, whatever that means. Nor does X being /grounded/ in A mean that X is /internal/ to A; indeed, it is essential to distinguish between an instantiation of X being internal to A and the very meaning/definition of X being internal to A (again: whatever that means). So without distinguishing these points, this is not a "third answer," but simply an obscuration and verbal conflation of features of the two standard anwers. Commented Apr 1, 2025 at 0:54
  • None of this implies "platonic abstracta," of course, but simply ordinary distinctions between concepts and their instantiations. (N.b.: Michael16, you seem very prone to making unjustified slanders, both of your opponents and of many intellectual bystanders not even closely related to the original Q and your A; I'm not surprised that one of your responses, to which you protested on a meta-question, got deleted. You might want to stay more focused in your replies if you want to people to take you seriously.) Commented Apr 1, 2025 at 0:56