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Well, that's a great explanation about why I didn't go into maths—I don't give a damn about how I arrived at knowledge so long as I can rely on it.
by dgfgfdagasdfgfa 9y ago
Well, that's a great explanation about why I didn't go into maths—I don't give a damn about how I arrived at knowledge so long as I can rely on it.
- zzz95 9y agoThat is correct as long as you don't hit the corner cases.
- gaius 9y agoHow do you know you can rely on it tho'? Blind faith?
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoI am stockpiling industrial amounts of popcorn for the (not too distant) future debates around the question: should we take into account the inherently limited capabilities of the human mind when defining the concept of "proof"? To be sure, myself I am very much a classicist of the old school when it comes to such matters. But this is a brave new world we are slowly but surely moving into.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoIf and when most of the heavy lifting in the field of doing proofs will be done by computers, I suspect a new definition of proof will emerge not too far from what you're saying. Rene Descartes or Isaac Newton would throw a fit if they could see this.