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Full Idea
For the instinctive nominalist in mathematics, there are no numbers, only numerals.
Gist of Idea
For nomalists there are no numbers, only numerals
Source
James Robert Brown (Philosophy of Mathematics [1999], Ch. 5)
Book Ref
Brown,James Robert: 'Philosophy of Mathematics' [Routledge 2002], p.62
A Reaction
Maybe. A numeral is a specific sign, sometimes in a specific natural language, so this seems to miss the fact that cardinality etc are features of reality, not just conventions.