system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Does math objectively exist?

I've always thought that math has an objective existence without humans. But someone on reddit has told me that it is a human creation? Does math objectively exist without humans? Can we "create" mathematics, or can we merely "discover" mathematics?
gpt
A supermajority of philosophers of math say that yes, it objectively exists. It probably helps to know that when these people talk about math they mean two different things. The facts objectively exist, but the human classification methods and human quantification of them is created. Imagine it like taking a picture of a mountain. You can call your picture the mountain if you want, but you created the picture. However, the mountain obviously existed before you took the picture. But people can be confused if you use the word mountain to refer to both your picture and the item itself. The word math refers to both the objective facts and the human interaction with them. So it makes sense people get confused.