> Hilbert and his supporters clearly won that second debate. Hence, time was expulsed from mathematics and mathematical objects came to be seen as existing in s

> Hilbert and his supporters clearly won that second debate. Hence, time was expulsed from mathematics and mathematical objects came to be seen as existing in some idealized Platonistic world. I guess that was so because the view was common, before. It should be difficult to find and prove that the line had better read "... continued to be seen as ..."