Elegi Menggapai "Platonism as the Epistemological Foundation of Mathematics"

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

Hersh R. issues that Platonism is the most pervasive philosophy of mathematics; today's mathematical Platonisms descend in a clear line from the doctrine of Ideas in Plato .



Plato's philosophy of mathematics 1 came from the Pythagoreans, so mathematical "Platonism" ought to be "Pythago-Platonism."

Meanwhile, Wilder R.L. contends that Platonism 2 is