• KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 hours ago

    Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!

    …Wait, that means there’s no objective meaning of “objective”, crap

    • BanMe@lemmy.world
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      Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)