Real: “actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.” - Oxford English Dictionary
Reality as a concept is dependent and requires the presence of an alternative term so as to establish its own meaning, validity, purpose and reason. You can't have words like "real" and not have words like "unreal", the pair depend on one another to make sense and exist. So if abstract entities aren't ‘unreal’, then what is? Wouldn’t the contrariety between imagination and reality be conflated?
If I have 2 objects in a box and then put another 2 objects in a box, I'd have a total of 4 objects. It doesn't matter what those objects are, their size, color, weight or smell. It doesn't matter if I imagine the total to be 5, 3 or 107. The fact is that when 2 objects are added to another 2 objects, what occurs is a total of 4 objects. That's a fact.
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