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Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:13:54 2015 No.7739700 [Reply] [Original]

Is math an invention or a discovery? Clearly our way of translating math is an invention.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:15:45 2015 No.7739704 Notice how these kinds of questions add nothing to mathematics? This is why philosophy of mathematics is a waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:22:22 2015 No.7739709 File: 93 KB, 216x249, drink.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7739704 >posting on 4chan >calling something a waste of time

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:25:01 2015 No.7739711 File: 2.36 MB, 400x299, 1450724405479.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >it's a platonism thread sage

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:32:08 2015 No.7739721 >>7739700 Mathematics is an emergent phenomenon predicated by the existence of thinking minds. >Is math an invention or a discovery? Both.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:32:40 2015 No.7739722 >>7739700 It's an invention of the human consciousness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:36:55 2015 No.7739732 File: 115 KB, 333x500, good post.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7739721

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:46:57 2015 No.7739746 its a social construct

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 04:48:24 2015 No.7739750 >>7739746 like gender and race?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 05:25:29 2015 No.7739788 >>7739700 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqZKIfRnTPg&feature=youtu.be

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 23 05:30:21 2015 No.7739792 Math doesn't exist, you can't photograph a math, you can't hold a math.