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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Real Essentialism' and 'Science and Hypothesis'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

12238	The Aristotelian view is that numbers depend on (and are abstracted from) other things [Oderberg]
	Full Idea: The Aristotelian account of numbers is that their existence depends on the existence of things that are not numbers, ..since numbers are abstractions from the existence of things.
	From: David S. Oderberg (Real Essentialism [2007], 1.2)
	A reaction: This is the deeply unfashionable view to which I am attached. The problem is the status of transfinite, complex etc numbers. They look like fictions to me.