The view in philosophy of mathematics that abstract objects (numbers, sets) are obtained by abstracting from concrete instances — identifying equivalence classes under abstraction principles like Hume's Principle.
Provides a neo-logicist foundation for arithmetic: numbers are defined via abstraction principles (the number of Fs = the number of Gs iff there is a one-to-one correspondence between F and G things), deriving arithmetic without explicit definitions.
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