What Is Mathematical Truth? by Hilary Putnam
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Chapter 4 of Mathematics, Matter and Method, pp. 60–78; printed p. 73 gives the realist argument from scientific success. The chapter appeared in the 1975 collection; the linked publisher record is for the 1979 second edition and its later online publication. The similarly named short Historia Mathematica item is not silently substituted.
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