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    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)

    Ol’ man river, dat ol’ man river,
    He must know sumpin’, but don’t say nothin’
    He just keeps rollin’,
    He keeps on rollin’ along.
    Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)