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Is math an invention or a discovery? Clearly our way of translating

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Is math an invention or a discovery? Clearly our way of translating math is an invention.
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Notice how these kinds of questions add nothing to mathematics?

This is why philosophy of mathematics is a waste of time.
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>>7739704
>posting on 4chan
>calling something a waste of time
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>it's a platonism thread
sage
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>>7739700

Mathematics is an emergent phenomenon predicated by the existence of thinking minds.

>Is math an invention or a discovery?

Both.
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>>7739700
It's an invention of the human consciousness.
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>>7739721
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its a social construct
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>>7739746
like gender and race?
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>>7739700
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqZKIfRnTPg&feature=youtu.be
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Math doesn't exist, you can't photograph a math, you can't hold a math.
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