Single Idea 2145

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / B. Propositional Logic PL / 2. Tools of Propositional Logic / e. Axioms of PL]

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 Reference

Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.238

---