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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / a. For mathematical platonism

10490	Mathematics isn't surprising, given that we experience many objects as abstract [Boolos]
	Full Idea: It is no surprise that we should be able to reason mathematically about many of the things we experience, for they are already 'abstract'.
	From: George Boolos (Must We Believe in Set Theory? [1997], p.129)
	A reaction: He has just given a list of exemplary abstract objects (Idea 10489), but I think there is a more interesting idea here - that our experience of actual physical objects is to some extent abstract, as soon as it is conceptualised.