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There are ideas that we feel no reason to question; therefore to them, in agreement, we passively assign the quality Truth. These lead to the passive dissolution of related untruth. There are ideas which we actively observe as true, which lead to the active dissolution of related untruths.
In Philosophy 101, my brain was impregnated with the connection that mathematics is philosophy. Mathematics is a way of viewing the world. Mathematics was derived for the sole purpose of understanding things. Mathematics is a philosophy with a very practical method of progress. If you can with the numbers prove it, then it is assumed to be true. I accepted this as being true without giving it much thought.
In Mathematics 240 (Statistics) The first statement that I heard my teacher say was that all statistics is, and all of mathematics in general, is philosophy. A way of viewing the world. It's rare to hear it from a math teacher, it seems, so the idea stuck enough to give to me to actively consider it and reflect upon it occasionally.
Math was a good idea, eh? It is very practical philosophy in that to append it to the physical world is a simple matter. To append the philosophy "Be nice" is much more difficult, for example, than "This is how right triangles function". strange to consider that when it began it was considered as just another philosophy that just another group of people was using. For the most part I mean the formation of geometry and the like. Arithmetic follows the same principal, but most likely comes naturally. There are those who don't know numbers, but they must still know the difference between two stones and three.
Of course, one could say that we have no real need for anything that with mathematics we have given ourselves. But one could also say that we have no need.
In Philosophy 101, my brain was impregnated with the connection that mathematics is philosophy. Mathematics is a way of viewing the world. Mathematics was derived for the sole purpose of understanding things. Mathematics is a philosophy with a very practical method of progress. If you can with the numbers prove it, then it is assumed to be true. I accepted this as being true without giving it much thought.
In Mathematics 240 (Statistics) The first statement that I heard my teacher say was that all statistics is, and all of mathematics in general, is philosophy. A way of viewing the world. It's rare to hear it from a math teacher, it seems, so the idea stuck enough to give to me to actively consider it and reflect upon it occasionally.
Math was a good idea, eh? It is very practical philosophy in that to append it to the physical world is a simple matter. To append the philosophy "Be nice" is much more difficult, for example, than "This is how right triangles function". strange to consider that when it began it was considered as just another philosophy that just another group of people was using. For the most part I mean the formation of geometry and the like. Arithmetic follows the same principal, but most likely comes naturally. There are those who don't know numbers, but they must still know the difference between two stones and three.
Of course, one could say that we have no real need for anything that with mathematics we have given ourselves. But one could also say that we have no need.