• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      yes. it’s not a science anymore than painting is.

      you can certainly make mathematical models and paint pictures of theoretical concepts though.

      science is the method of empirical verification. math is about as empirical as metaphysics is.

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        mathematician, physicist, and theoretical physicist arguing about what is “real”

        fight fight fight

        there can only be one!

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          9 days ago

          i can do you one better. i was in philosophy.

          nothing more fun that the bitterness of various academics getting pissy about whose work is ‘most essential’ or ‘primary’ or ‘pure’ or ‘foundational’.

          best thing i did in life was leave academia and it’s pissing contests of legitimacy. or worse, how much money they could bring it by wooing the donors. funny how a lot of academic pretension just boils down to who can get the most money.