 thinkers seek to reduce the number of things they
grant existence to, as if it were really up to them, and so
they picked on all such airy notings as things that looked
like easy pickings for elimination.  Their notorious motto:
&quot;Do not confuse a general name with the name of a general&quot;.
And of course they were not talking about Alcibiades or
Franco or individuals of that rank, but the rank of
generals that Plato most notoriously mustered up.
The corollary maxim:  &quot;A general is just a name&q