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Full Idea
Nothing at all is 'intrinsically' numbered.
Gist of Idea
Nothing is 'intrinsically' numbered
Source
Palle Yourgrau (Sets, Aggregates and Numbers [1985], 'What the')
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Mathematics: anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.359
A Reaction
Once you are faced with distinct 'objects' of some sort, they can play the role of 'unit' in counting, so his challenge is that nothing is 'intrinsically' an object, which is the nihilism explored by Unger, Van Inwagen and Merricks. Aristotle disagrees...