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Mathematics is a bit different than science, science doesn't claim truths, it says what the best description of things are based on the facts, the facts are evi
by keithnz 6y ago
Mathematics is a bit different than science, science doesn't claim truths, it says what the best description of things are based on the facts, the facts are evidence based. When you skip the facts and evidence part and just claim things, then you are in the land of woo. At the basis of science is essentially the laws of thought which, like good axioms should be, claim the smallest possible thing to reason from ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_thought ). Woo tends to claim large things partially based on existing knowledge and partially based on things we don't know but may be possible.