• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    That truth is absolute. It’s very much subjective. Much in the way right and wrong are subjective.

    Life is complicated and things don’t fit into perfect little boxes.

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        6 months ago

        Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they’re based on are highly controversial.

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          6 months ago

          And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

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        6 months ago

        Nah even statistics is perfectly logical and right, but not because truth is absolute (there may be such a thing, but we definitely don’t have access to it in that case. [At this time?]), but rather because math defined there to be a way in which all you derive from it is ‘absolutely’ true. It just might be ‘absolutely’ true in a system that isn’t ours, or isn’t useful for answering anything we want to ask…