Ancient Historians

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    Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days!
    Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways:

    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)