Van Nest

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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)

    Far from her nest the lapwing cries away;
    My heart prays for him, though my tongue do curse.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)