Numerous philosophers tolerate in their ontologies various sorts of abstracta including (in a list that may or may not be redundant) properties, propositions, sets, numbers, states of affairs, possible worlds, non-actual but possible individuals, fictional or mythic entities, appearances, irreducibly mental whatnots from propositional attitudes, perceivings, sensings, and feelings to talents and faculties, and perhaps more.
That sort of thing takes us a long way from materialism and "naturalism" as well as nominalism.
But it seems very natural to me.
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