I often see physicists say things like "we discovered some math that helps with problem so and so" and stuff like that. — Gregory
In my opinion absolutely everything can quantified. — turkeyMan
I often see physicists say things like "we discovered some math that helps with problem so and so" and stuff like that. — Gregory
Yes.it is a general feature of mathematics that whatever we find things in reality to be doing, we can always invent a mathematical structure that behaves exactly, indistinguishably like that, — Pfhorrest
Paradoxes are examples of language gone astray. Zeno's Achilles is a case in point; where Zeno articulated the problem into a paradox, the maths of limits articulates the paradox away. — Banno
It often seems like that are taking math a priori and assuming that the world must accord with it. That would be a Pythagorean position though. It would need defending. Anyone willing to help me reason through this issue? — Gregory
They want more, they want to turn math into a kind of God. — JerseyFlight
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