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I wouldn't say that math is fiction. I'd say that it's a tool that can be tested, but there isn't one tool that's correct. There can be many such as Euclidean v
by abirch 4y ago
I wouldn't say that math is fiction. I'd say that it's a tool that can be tested, but there isn't one tool that's correct. There can be many such as Euclidean vs Bolyai-Lobachevskian geometry. Both are non-fiction, one maybe more useful than the other.
- sandworm101 4y agoAll the tools are fiction. They are creations of man. The rock doesnt care. Its existence is not altered one iota by the tools that man use to describe its motion. Things that have no impact outside the minds of men are fiction.
- glitcher 4y agoIf you are correct, then man must also be fiction. I keep using my consciousness to figure out if my consciousness is real, but I think it might be biased.
- disconcision 4y agowell then 'fiction' is fiction so i guess everything is real
- abirch 4y agoWe can predict what will happen to the rock. That predict will or won't be fiction. If the rock is nahcolite we know what'll happen if we mix it with acid. The prediction will be fact or fiction.