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What is it, if not an art?

• daze42 1mo ago
  A science?
  • lanstin 29d ago
    It isn’t even as constrained by material reality as mixing oil paints to get a certain effect is.
  • BeetleB 29d ago
    Nope. Science demands empirical verification. Math doesn't. No theorem is violated based on experiments and observations.
• adastra22 1mo ago
  Truth.
  • BeetleB 29d ago
    What is truth if we are free to pick our axioms? The universe is either Euclidean or not. If it were, how can theorems on non-Euclidean geometry be true?
    • gre 29d ago
      You pick your axioms and you see what must be true. With math and logic, we can reason about any possible universe even though we live in only one of them.