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I think pretty much every mathematician and physicist disagrees with you on that one.

• imtringued 3y ago
  The concept of axioms should disprove that notion pretty quickly. If axioms are natural, why do you have to assume them to be true? Why haven't they been proven to be true?
  • User23 3y ago
    Because we don't have direct access to reality. Axioms exist as parts of models, which are human abstractions. Thus at some point to formally talk about reality we have to make rigorous assumptions about it. That human beings are as good as we are at finding axioms that appear to correspond pretty well to reality is amazing to me. It's a really interesting philosophical question to ask why it is that we are.
• pphysch 3y ago
  On the contrary, it's the people who haven't done advanced studies of mathematics that tend to be confused/wowed by the popular mysticism surrounding it. There is also a certain type that leans into that mysticism for personal gain, which IMHO is irresponsible and promotes the myth that mathematics is inaccessible.
  • User23 3y ago
    It's not really a matter of mysticism. It's metaphysics. The question "why does Mathematics work so well to describe our world?" is entirely valid and interesting.