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Problems of Garbage Collection (I)

There have been a number of attempts in recent decades to show that mathematical entities are dispensable. The chief difficulty for these proposals lies in the vast number of mathematical entities to be dispensed with.

Zoltán Gendler Szabó, "Review of A Subject with no Object", in The Philosophical Review, Vol. 108, No. 1, January 1999, p. 107.