Intuitive structures and formalised mathematics

pp. 101-113

in: Jean Piaget, Evert W. Beth, Mathematical epistemology and psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Abstract

We have seen that there exists a kind of "pre-established harmony" between pure mathematical thought, the deductive method and Platonism; the alliance between the three is so stable that it is difficult to consider it only as the result of a fortuitous historical grouping.