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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

17785	Real numbers as abstracted objects are now treated as complete ordered fields [Mayberry]
	Full Idea: The abstractness of the old fashioned real numbers has been replaced by generality in the modern theory of complete ordered fields.
	From: John Mayberry (What Required for Foundation for Maths? [1994], p.408-2)
	A reaction: In philosophy, I'm increasingly thinking that we should talk much more of 'generality', and a great deal less about 'universals'. (By which I don't mean that redness is just the set of red things).