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My claim is not that the model itself is true - I'm claiming that the underlying mechanisms that rule the world are true and are not subject to change by social
by bheadmaster 4y ago
My claim is not that the model itself is true - I'm claiming that the underlying mechanisms that rule the world are true and are not subject to change by social consensus.
The model is "good enough" for the purpose of creating a building, but that doesn't make the act of "creating a building" any less real, nor the underlying rules that govern matter any less true. Our descriptions are not real - the rules themselves (which we may not know exactly) are real.
Therefore, mathematics - the set of rules that corresponds to how reality works - itself exists in reality regardless of social consensus. Society can't change them by making a different consensus.
- guipsp 4y agoNothing about mathematics describes how the world works.