alleryThe view that mathematical objects exist on their own in abstraction is called what?
AFormalism
BPlatonism
CEmpiricism
DIntuitionism
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Platonism
1. Some philosophers hold that abstract objects are real.
2. Plato argued such abstractions exist outside space and time.
3. The view is therefore called Platonism.
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