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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 14:31:32 2020 No.11620266 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11620312 >>11620314 >>11620370 >>11620377 >>11621486 >>11621500 >>11621512 >>11622078

Why are mathematicians obsessed with the word 'we'? Why do they include the word 'we' on average 20,000 times in a single textbook?

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 14:47:58 No.11620312 Report

Quoted By: >>11621512

>>11620266

We find it appropriate to do so.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 14:48:06 No.11620314 Report

Quoted By: >>11620322

>>11620266
Saying" I " implies you exist, saying "we" puts us in the same set, hence we both exist.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 14:50:20 No.11620322 Report

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>>11620314
No pronoun is needed to describe mathematical phenomena

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 14:51:14 No.11620329 Report

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Let
Suppose
It follows

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 14:52:36 No.11620334 Report

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To string you along

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 15:03:26 No.11620370 Report

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>>11620266
Even mathematicians get restless writing in wing-dings all the time. So they throw a little narrative into their papers

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 15:08:35 No.11620377 Report

Quoted By: >>11621496

>>11620266
this pic has ambuiguous notation

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 19:59:27 No.11621486 Report

Quoted By: >>11621500

>>11620266
Because they are explaining math to you and your textbook has multiple authors. Thus, we.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 20:01:23 No.11621496 Report

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>>11620377
Plain text notation was a mistake

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 20:03:20 No.11621500 Report

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>>11621486
Wrong
>>11620266
Because the author and the reader are in a journey of knowledge together (metaphorically).

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 20:08:44 No.11621512 Report

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>>11620266
>Why are mathematicians obsessed with the word 'we'?
There are not. Every academic paper is like this because >>11620312

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 22:48:59 No.11622078 Report

Quoted By: >>11622095

>>11620266

> >>11585059
> In mathematics we use the second person plural to mean we as in the author/s and the reader. It is expected that the reader is following along with pen and paper of his own, carefully studying the arguments and doing mathematics as he reads the paper. This is why we use we.

> >>11585454
> How is "you" generic? It is most often used in instructions, implying that the potential reader is expected to follow them.
> "We" on the other hand can refer to something non-personal, such as humanity as a whole, or an inclusive group.
> Wikipedia is not a collection of prescriptive guides, but a collection of descriptive articles.
> Justify yourself.

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Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 22:56:24 No.11622095 Report

Quoted By: >>11622108

>>11622078
>> How is "you" generic? It is most often used in instructions, implying that the potential reader is expected to follow them.
>> "We" on the other hand can refer to something non-personal, such as humanity as a whole, or an inclusive group.
>> Wikipedia is not a collection of prescriptive guides, but a collection of descriptive articles.
>> Justify yourself.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Apr 2020 22:59:53 No.11622108 Report

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>>11622095
>>> nooo you can't just destruct my retarded argument

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 May 2020 01:49:21 No.11622612 Report

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In philosophy writing in the first person is permissible because writing is bullshit and just get to the point already even punctuation is more lax.

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