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Mathematics is a language, not a scientific theory. You can use mathematics to describe scientific theories, but it is not necessary. (We had been doing scienc
by otabdeveloper4 4y ago
Mathematics is a language, not a scientific theory.
You can use mathematics to describe scientific theories, but it is not necessary. (We had been doing science long before we invented math.)
Meanwhile you can use math to describe all sorts of things that aren't and will never be science.
- necovek 4y agoMathematics has a language, but it has a bunch of conclusions using said language too. I don't think you can argue how mathematical theorems are not "scientific theory": the language part comes from all the definitions and axioms, but there is a whole theory built on top of it. On your other statement, I never said mathematics is the theory of science, but rather, a scientific theory: so of course we had science before we formalized and names mathematics mathematics. It's only loosely based on reality (as a driver for many — but not all — definitions and concepts), just like other scientific theories are based on our perceived reality.