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I am by no means an expert on this, but intuitionism [1], one of the major foundational philosophies of mathematics, does view mathematics as an invention of th
by raviman 7y ago
I am by no means an expert on this, but intuitionism [1], one of the major foundational philosophies of mathematics, does view mathematics as an invention of the human mind, and as the "one true language" we use to communicate with each other. Physics then, is also "just", a mental creation.
[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/intuitionism/
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoIt seems to me that your second sentence does not follow from the first.
- raviman 7y agoFair! I implicitly assumed that physics and mathematics are isomorphic (as speculated by Dirac in the essay). And so from this assumption, and my first sentence, the second follows.
- wallace_f 7y agoI would like to thank you for sharing this. That is on point.