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In What is Mathematics, Really? I argued, following Leslie White, that mathematical entities are real objects and that they are part of culture, i.e., sociocultural entities and intersubjective.
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Hersh, R. (2017). On the Nature of Mathematical Entities. In: Sriraman, B. (eds) Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61231-7_27
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