Well no, it's not like that. All I said was if something already exists you can't really invent it, you can only discover it. As far as giving people credit for one versus the other, there's no value...
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Well no, it's not like that. All I said was if...
Well no, it's not like that. All I said was if something already exists you can't really invent it, you can only discover it. As far as giving people credit for one versus the other, there's no value...
Ah, gotcha.
But I still wouldn't say it...
Ah, gotcha.
But I still wouldn't say it 'models reality' because the word 'model' suggests some kind of abstract representation that doesn't necessarily capture the full truth (to me at least). In...
What do you mean by 'models reality'? The maths...
What do you mean by 'models reality'? The maths doesn't model anything. It's the people applying it that are doing the modeling.
(There is a related philosophical question about whether scientific...
"Discovered" makes more sense to me than...
"Discovered" makes more sense to me than "invented." Like, if we hadn't come along and starting counting on our fingers and toes, there would be no maths? Meh. There might not be maths textbooks,...