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Full Idea
My own line is a yet more sweeping structuralism (than David Lewis's account of classes), applying to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately.
Gist of Idea
I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately
Source
Willard Quine (Structure and Nature [1992], p.6), quoted by Stewart Shapiro - Philosophy of Mathematics 4.9
Book Ref
Shapiro,Stewart: 'Philosophy of Mathematics:structure and ontology' [OUP 1997], p.142
A Reaction
Shapiro calls this 'breathtaking', and retreats from it, but it is something like my own view, starting from Mill's pebbles and working up.
10242 | I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine] |
10243 | My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine] |