Such accounts, as we have seen, are programrnatic,
Legislating how mathematics should be understood, rather than providing accurately descriptive accounts of the of nature of mathematics. Thus they are failing to account for mathematics as it, in the hope of fulfilling their vision of how it should be. But ‘to confuse description and programme --- to confuse ‘it’ with ‘ought to be’ or ‘should be’ --- is just as harmful in the philosophy of mathematics as clsewhere.’