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18y ago
Yet this failure to agree on semantics is in part because of the difficulty in providing solid, incontrovertible justifications for these meanings. Consider the new branches of mathematics that were [created|discovered] when Euclid's defini
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18y ago
Above you say that this is an honest request to know more so I will treat it as such. In philosophy a method proposed by Descartes to find the foundations of knowledge was to doubt everything that possibly could be doubted which includes th
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18y ago
<cheap shot>And what is this substance of mathematics?</cheap shot> Calling mathematics "incontrovertibly true" and stating that abstractions used in mathematics can be explained concretely in simpler terms are philosophical