PLATONIC REALISM AND THE CONCEPT OF MIND
Platonic realism takes the view that mathematics does not create or invent its “object, but discovers them as Columbus discovered America. Now, if this is true, the objects must in some sense “exist” prior to their discovery. According to Platonic doctrine, the objects of mathematical study are not found in the spatio-temporal order. They are disembodied eternal Forms or Archetypes, which dwell in a distinctive realm accessible […]