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Anonymous Wed 06 Apr 19:36:03 2022 No.14369736 View Reply Original Report

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Why can't non-math empiricucks admit they're inferior dick-sucking grant-whores that revel in deliberate ignorance and call it knowledge?

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Anonymous Wed 06 Apr 2022 20:02:49 No.14369779 Report

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bump

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Anonymous Wed 06 Apr 2022 20:11:23 No.14369792 Report

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>deliberate ignorance
>Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then such and such another proposition is true of that thing. It is essential not to discuss whether the first proposition is really true, and not to mention what the anything is, of which it is supposed to be true. Both these points would belong to applied mathematics. We start, in pure mathematics, from certain rules of inference, by which we can infer that if one proposition is true, then so is some other proposition. These rules of inference constitute the major part of the principles of formal logic. We then take any hypothesis that seems amusing, and deduce its consequences. If our hypothesis is about anything, and not about some one or more particular things, then our deductions constitute mathematics. Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. People who have been puzzled by the beginnings of mathematics will, I hope, find comfort in this definition, and will probably agree that it is accurate.

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