A related benefit of platonism is that it allows one to take mathematical discourse literally, given that mathematical terms refer. In particular, there is no change in the syntax of mathematical statements. So, when mathematicians claim that ‘There are infinitely many prime numbers’, the platonist can take that statement literally as describing the existence of an infinitude of primes. On the platonist view, there are obvious truth-makers for mathematical statements: mathematical objects and their corresponding properties and relations (Benacerraf 1973).