ABSTRACT
In an essay called “God and Other Uncreated Things” (Van Inwagen, 2009), I defended the position that abstract objects—numbers, propositions, properties, relations—exist, and that they can be neither agents nor patients: that is to say, the position that there are abstract objects and that they are incapable of entering into causal relations. And I further argued that, since creation is obviously a causal relation, we must conclude that abstract objects are uncreated. (A conclusion that coheres nicely with another thesis I endorse, namely that abstract objects are, one and all, necessarily existent.)
