Full Idea
Aristotelians treat mathematical facts as relations between properties. These properties, moreover, are abstracted from our experience of things. ...This view finds a natural companion in structuralism.
Gist of Idea
Mathematics is relations between properties we abstract from experience
Source
Edwin D. Mares (A Priori [2011], 11.7)
Book Reference
Mares,Edwin: 'A Priori' [Acumen 2011], p.182
A Reaction
This is the view of mathematics that I personally favour. The view that we abstract 'five' from a group of five pebbles is too simplistic, but this is the right general approach.