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On the contrary. I think that "real" and "imaginary" numbers are both discovered and neither concept has more reality than the other. I think that even chess r
by Y_Y 7y ago
On the contrary. I think that "real" and "imaginary" numbers are both discovered and neither concept has more reality than the other.
I think that even chess rules have a meaningful "existence" (in a Platonic sense) even if they are in some sense arbitrary. We can't discover "the one true rule system" but we can discover various possible systems and also theorems about them.
- jeffdavis 7y agoWhy aren't real and imaginary numbers both invented?