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Science is not always aware that it has axioms. Historically, absolute time, absolute space, Euclidean geometry, stuff like that. No place for, say, the qualia
by 8bitsrule 8y ago
Science is not always aware that it has axioms. Historically, absolute time, absolute space, Euclidean geometry, stuff like that. No place for, say, the qualia which motivate it ... beauty, elegance, the like.
- whatshisface 8y agoEuclidian geometry was literally based on axioms from day one.
- coldtea 8y agoWhat the parent means is science doesn't always know it has implicit axioms. And that Euclidean geometry itself is only one possible geometry, but took us several millennia (until e.g. Lobachevsky) to find out -- it was taken as a kind of axiom itself, like absolute time etc.