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According to the philosophy of mathematics to be defended here, mathematics is a science of the real world, just as much as biology or sociology are. Where biology studies living things and sociology studies human social relations, mathematics studies the quantitative and structural or patterned aspects of things.
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Franklin, J. (2014). Introduction. In: An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400734_1
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