Even in math, you don't build models, you discover them. Pythagoras wasn't worried about the axiom of choice, he was discovering how geometry works. I don't me

Even in math, you don't build models, you discover them. Pythagoras wasn't worried about the axiom of choice, he was discovering how geometry works. I don't mean this to be a "mathematics from nature argument" (even infinite sets are hard to justify as coming from nature), but the course of history has usually been "solve similar problems in an ad-hoc manner many times, then generalize"