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Full Idea
The practitioners of maths take certain things as basic, and feel no further need to explain them.
Gist of Idea
In mathematics certain things have to be accepted without further explanation
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 510c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.238