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.
Gist of Idea
The Aristotelian view is that numbers depend on (and are abstracted from) other things
Source
David S. Oderberg (Real Essentialism [2007], 1.2)
Book Reference
Oderberg,David S.: 'Real Essentialism' [Routledge 2009], p.9
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.