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> If you ask them, mathematicians may give opinion one way or the other, but they do not actually care very much Indeed, this is more of a meta scientific, or
by Galanwe 2y ago
> If you ask them, mathematicians may give opinion one way or the other, but they do not actually care very much
Indeed, this is more of a meta scientific, or epistemogic, question (edit: though it seems the French "épistemologie" is not really translatable to "epistemology" in English, at least not in its original meaning)
> Another way to put it: is math invented or discovered?
I think this is the question encompassed by constructivist epistemology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_science) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_o...