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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Wait, I thought everything in math is rigorously and unambiguously defined?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's a hole at the bottom of math.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There’s a frog on the log on the hole on the bottom of math. There’s a frog on the log on the hole on the bottom of math. A frog. A frog. There’s a frog on the log on the hole on the bottom of math.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Rigorously, yes. Unambiguously, no. Plenty of words (like continuity) can mean different things in different contexts. The important thing isn’t the word, it’s that the word has a clear definition within the context of a proof. Obviously you want to be able to communicate ideas clearly and so a convention of symbols and terms have been established over time, but conventions can change over time too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Platonism Vs Intuitionism would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Yes, and like any science it gets revisited and contested periodically.