ABSTRACT
Granted that numbers belong to the realm of being, let us consider anew such ordinary properties as colors and shapes. You will remember that I argued earlier, against rather stiff opposition, that roundness is not located in space. The mistaken impression that it is, say, over there, where the billiard ball Moritz is, arises because it is indeed Moritz rather than the book over here which is round. We are tempted to locate properties where, in reality, the individual things are located which have those properties. This is, at any rate, my view. But suppose someone keeps insisting that roundness is quite literally over there, that it is just as much and in the same sense located as Moritz is. What can I reply? All I can do is repeat myself: you are mistaken, you merely think that roundness is over there because something is over there which is round.
