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		spookthesunset on Oct 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alien Truth > In particular, we humans still hotly debate which math is the "right" math. Is the axiom of choice "true"? Does it make sense to say that it has a truth value? I would love examples of this. Seems pretty cool to think about. I always assumed that “math” would be one of the constructs we could always reliably communicate with.

kmod on Oct 18, 2022 [–]

I really like the Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. In this case: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/

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