The philosophy of mathematics would be so much easier if it weren’t for infinity. The concept seems natural, but taking […]
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People have a complicated relationship to mathematics. We all use it in our everyday lives, from calculating a tip at
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To say that event A causes event B is to not only make a claim about our actual world, but
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Are numbers real? What does that even mean? You can’t kick a number. But you can talk about numbers in
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Mathematics is often thought of as the pinnacle of crisp precision: the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle
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On a spectrum of philosophical topics, one might be tempted to put mathematics and morality on opposite ends. Math is
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There are some problems for which it’s very hard to find the answer, but very easy to check the answer
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