Full Idea
One result of the structuralist perspective is a healthy blurring of the distinction between mathematical and ordinary objects. ..'According to the structuralist, physical configurations often instantiate mathematical patterns'.
Gist of Idea
Structuralism blurs the distinction between mathematical and ordinary objects
Source
Stewart Shapiro (Philosophy of Mathematics [1997], 8.4)
Book Reference
Shapiro,Stewart: 'Philosophy of Mathematics:structure and ontology' [OUP 1997], p.256
A Reaction
[The quotation is from Penelope Maddy 1988 p.28] This is probably the main reason why I found structuralism interesting, and began to investigate it.