Full Idea
Why regard the axioms of standard mathematics as truths, rather than as fictions that for a variety of reasons mathematicians have become interested in?
Gist of Idea
Why regard standard mathematics as truths, rather than as interesting fictions?
Source
Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980], p.viii)
Book Reference
Field,Hartry: 'Science without Number' [Blackwell 1980], p.-7