If you are not familiar, this is part of a very long-running discussion in the philosophy of mathematics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathemat

If you are not familiar, this is part of a very long-running discussion in the philosophy of mathematics: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/#FouSch https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/#F... (For context on the intro to that section, Platonism is, roughly speaking, the idea that mathematical objects truly exist and mathematicians are discovering them)