Well, I'd say that Schopenhauer's statement requires a higher level of verification than someone calling him out for BS. If you're asking for a proof, I'd say

Well, I'd say that Schopenhauer's statement requires a higher level of verification than someone calling him out for BS. If you're asking for a proof, I'd say that the fact that multiple equally sophisticated musical schema are present across the world in different cultures that he didn't acknowledge (and only _instrumental_ music??). The point that I think you inadvertently bring up is that an appreciation of mathematics is so far only human (and we tend to focus on the ones that are useful to us right now)... perhaps when we meet alien life we'll actually know how universally interesting our little parts truly are. In any case, they are still mostly consistent sets of postulates, theorems, and axioms.