
&gt;in his original writings that would contradict this opinion,
&gt;though I have not read but a small taste of what he wrote.
&gt;But if one refuses, on principle, to admit of any abstract
&gt;entities at all, no matter what, then one has contracted
&gt;for a degenre of "dogmatic" nominalism and reductionism,
&gt;and this makes it all but impossible to do mathematics
&gt;or almost anything at all beyond "nominal thinking",
&gt;to pose the rather pointed pun.  One of the features
&gt;that saves my perspec