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In the philosophy of mathematics, platonism is the thesis according to which mathematical statements, and theorems of mathematical theories in particular, are about abstract objects forming a domain that those theorems describe.
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Panza, M., Sereni, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Plato’s Problem. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137298133_1
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