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Ideas for 'Content Preservation', 'Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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

8704	Structuralists call a mathematical 'object' simply a 'place in a structure' [Friend]
	Full Idea: What the mathematician labels an 'object' in her discipline, is called 'a place in a structure' by the structuralist.
	From: Michèle Friend (Introducing the Philosophy of Mathematics [2007], 4.5)
	A reaction: This is a strategy for dispersing the idea of an object in the world of thought, parallel to attempts to eliminate them from physical ontology (e.g. Idea 614).