Full Idea
Instead of viewing the abstracts (or sums) as being generated from objects, via the concepts from which they are defined, we can take them to be generated from conditions. The number of the universe ∞ is the number of self-identical objects.
Gist of Idea
We can create objects from conditions, rather than from concepts
Source
Kit Fine (Replies on 'Limits of Abstraction' [2005], 1)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophical Studies' [-], p.373
A Reaction
The point is that no particular object is now required to make the abstraction.