Full Idea
Philosophers who hope to avoid commitment to abstract entities by claiming that mathematical statements are analytic must show how analyticity is, or provides a species of, truth not requiring reference.
Gist of Idea
Analyticity avoids abstract entities, but can there be truth without reference?
Source
Philip Kitcher (The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge [1984], 04.I)
Book Reference
Kitcher,Philip: 'The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge' [OUP 1984], p.68
A Reaction
[the last part is a quotation from W.D. Hart] Kitcher notes that Frege has a better account, because he provides objects to which reference can be made. I like this idea, which seems to raise a very large question, connected to truthmakers.