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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

17881	Mathematician want performable operations, not propositions about objects [Skolem]
	Full Idea: Most mathematicians want mathematics to deal, ultimately, with performable computing operations, and not to consist of formal propositions about objects called this or that.
	From: Thoralf Skolem (Remarks on axiomatised set theory [1922], p.300)