It's not self-evidently untrue, this is an incredibly complex philosophical question with no easy "right answer". There is also a spectrum of positions about th

It's not self-evidently untrue, this is an incredibly complex philosophical question with no easy "right answer". There is also a spectrum of positions about this. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a good resource for reading about this topic: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#ObjMatPla https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/platonism-mathematics/#Ob... Edit: another good link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-mathematics/