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Is mathematics invented or discovered? 2
#24001882 - 01/11/17 05:58 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Me again. just dropping by with my new problem I have. Is math invented or discovered? I'm pretty much 50/50 and I can't pick a winner...
Invent
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verb (used with object)
1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
Discover
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1. to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
2. to notice or realize: I discovered I didn't have my credit card with me when I went to pay my bill.
3. Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
So which is it?
These 6 definition all describe mathematics...
We make them up, but is was also one more thing to discover.
Discuss
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal] 6
#24001903 - 01/11/17 06:05 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Discovered, the same with language in general, math is an extension of language, which is a further development of all forms of communication down to the basic atomic impulses. Math is a continuation of thought and raw consciousness itself.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Repertoire89]
#24001935 - 01/11/17 06:13 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Repertoire89 said: Discovered, the same with language in general, math is an extension of language, which is a further development of all forms of communication down to the basic atomic impulses. Math is a continuation of thought and raw consciousness itself.
Couldn't have said it better
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: luvdemboomers]
#24001985 - 01/11/17 06:27 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Discovered, I've always noticed math hidden in mother nature in plain sight.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal] 1
#24001995 - 01/11/17 06:30 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Math exists everywhere in the universe. The names, symbols, words etc we use to describe it may be created by us, but the principles they're based on are constant regardless of language or beings intelligent enough to name it.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: T-Funkadelic]
#24001996 - 01/11/17 06:30 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Yeah, but meaning is also invented upon discovery, something like that. It's both discovered and invented at the same time
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: trees]
#24002087 - 01/11/17 06:50 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Its the same as science.. you wouldn't say someone invented science but discovered it. Math is a discovery
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
#24002112 - 01/11/17 06:59 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Patlal said: Me again. just dropping by with my new problem I have. Is math invented or discovered? I'm pretty much 50/50 and I can't pick a winner...
Invent
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verb (used with object)
1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
Discover
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1. to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown): to discover America; to discover electricity. Synonyms: detect, espy, descry, discern, ascertain, unearth, ferret out, notice.
2. to notice or realize: I discovered I didn't have my credit card with me when I went to pay my bill.
3. Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
So which is it?
These 6 definition all describe mathematics...
We make them up, but is was also one more thing to discover.
Discuss
Invented
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#24002137 - 01/11/17 07:12 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Math is universal and predates organic life; it was discovered, saying it was invented is akin to saying we invented fire.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: SARAtonin] 5
#24002141 - 01/11/17 07:14 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine] 1
#24002158 - 01/11/17 07:23 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Yeah the abstractions are invented, and any correspondence to the physical world is discovered.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal] 1
#24002176 - 01/11/17 07:30 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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If u believe in God, math is discovered.
If u dont believe in God, math is invented.
Yer welcome.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
#24002187 - 01/11/17 07:34 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Distance from one place to another wasn't invented. Calculating distance and time in increments was always there, we just figured it out. I don't believe in god either.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: T-Funkadelic]
#24002195 - 01/11/17 07:37 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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The concept of distance and time was invented though
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: T-Funkadelic]
#24002196 - 01/11/17 07:37 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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But distances between things are a constant thing that don't need math to exist. That is just the physical circumstances of the space we live in.
Goes back to this point
"It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances"
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
#24002197 - 01/11/17 07:38 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Invented
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: T-Funkadelic]
#24002204 - 01/11/17 07:40 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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T-Funkadelic said: Distance from one place to another wasn't invented.
"Physical circumstances"
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T-Funkadelic said: Calculating distance and time in increments was always there, we just figured it out. I don't believe in god either.
"Model to describe physical circumstances"
Idk man, sounds like you agree with me but don't realize it
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
#24002212 - 01/11/17 07:43 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
yes. correct IMO
Its just another way to describe what is already there. even that is stretching it..
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
#24002219 - 01/11/17 07:44 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
Can you elaborate on how it's inherently imperfect? Maybe our model/understanding of it isn't perfect but I don't understand how it itself is inherently imperfect.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#24002220 - 01/11/17 07:45 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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luvdemshrooms said: Invented

i thought i was going the be the only one to say it was invented
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SirShroomsAlott said:
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
Can you elaborate on how it's inherently imperfect? Maybe our model/understanding of it isn't perfect but I don't understand how it itself is inherently imperfect.
i think math is something that cannot be perfect nor imperfect
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
#24002235 - 01/11/17 07:51 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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Caine said:
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T-Funkadelic said: Distance from one place to another wasn't invented.
"Physical circumstances"
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T-Funkadelic said: Calculating distance and time in increments was always there, we just figured it out. I don't believe in god either.
"Model to describe physical circumstances"
Idk man, sounds like you agree with me but don't realize it
Maybe, I'm kinda lit lol. Those circumstances are still there, weather you're actually there to perceive them or not. Kind of like if a tree falls in the woods and no one's around to hear it fall, does it still make a sound.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#24002237 - 01/11/17 07:52 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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It's a difficult concept to explain IMO, math or at least the language and numbers we use for it is invented by us but only to explain things that are already there and inherently exists with or without our invention of what we use to explain it. It's simply a concept that's used to explain what is already there, so I guess my answer falls into math itself being invented yet at the same time it's just, as of now, an imperfect version or explanation of things yet to be discovered making it something inherent in nature....if that even makes sense lol.
I'm admittedly half drunk so excuse me if this doesn't make half as much sense as it did in my head I know what I mean but don't know if I explained it correctly.
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
Can you elaborate on how it's inherently imperfect? Maybe our model/understanding of it isn't perfect but I don't understand how it itself is inherently imperfect.
Well, I don't know, this is a tricky question. To use a pop sci example, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - for instance, when examining an electron: you can't measure the electron's velocity and position at the same time. Of course, the electron has a position and velocity at any given time, it's just impossible to determine experimentally. Maybe that's a bad example but mathematics is full of little bumps like this one.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly] 1
#24002264 - 01/11/17 08:01 PM (7 years, 19 days ago) |
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The units used and base counting is invented.
You can have different maths. We currently use base 10.
We have to convert inches and feet into centimeters and meters because how we measure is invented. The length is there regardless and this is discovered, we simply invent a way to measure it.
But maths is also discovered. We discovered that certain frequencies sound more appealing than others. But the label as to what the number of the frequency is(say, 440 hz) is an invention. It would be a different number if we used a different base system while still sounding the same.
Maths is both invented and discovered.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#24002424 - 01/11/17 09:10 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Bill_Oreilly said:
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
yes. correct IMO
Its just another way to describe what is already there. even that is stretching it..
Human interpretation of a natural phenomenon
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#24002440 - 01/11/17 09:14 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said:
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Bill_Oreilly said:
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
yes. correct IMO
Its just another way to describe what is already there. even that is stretching it..
Human interpretation of a natural phenomenon 
But is it even a natural phenomenon? It seems more like a man made METHOD for describing.
Like a created law of some kind
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
#24002450 - 01/11/17 09:19 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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I believe the Universe runs on math. Math is Universal. Its everywhere and within everything. Humans just made an abstract explaination of a real world thing.
Adding substracting dividing multiplying (im looking at u bunnies and mice) its all there already. Even calculus trig and geometry is in nature.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 1
#24002473 - 01/11/17 09:28 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: I believe the Universe runs on math. Math is Universal. Its everywhere and within everything. Humans just made an abstract explaination of a real world thing.
Adding substracting dividing multiplying (im looking at u bunnies and mice) its all there already. Even calculus trig and geometry is in nature.
When you say math is universal it reminds me of south parks classroom poster 
But interesting stuff there logical..as always
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Caine said: It's invented, math is an inherently imperfect model created by humans to describe physical circumstances 
Can you elaborate on how it's inherently imperfect? Maybe our model/understanding of it isn't perfect but I don't understand how it itself is inherently imperfect.
relevant: http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/Godel-IAS.pdf
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
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I dunno if anyone really ever bothers to watch the documentaries that get posted in threads but :http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xv1j0n_the-secret-life-of-chaos_shortfilms
That's a pretty good one that is kind of related to this discussion. Even the seemingly total random chances are actually bound by simple mathematics. Math is the framing and foundation that the entire universe is built upon. Without it, atoms wouldn't have formed, and without atoms you don't get stars, without stars.. well it just keeps going on like that.
I swear there was another one that that was pretty much exactly what this thread is about but I can't seem to find it. It's not the story of maths, the great math mystery and don't think it's order and disorder. Only thing I remember from it specifically is a part of it explaining why we like or dislike music and the most well liked music follows a very aesthetically pleasing mathematical rhythm. Or something like that.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: SARAtonin] 2
#24002720 - 01/11/17 11:22 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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SARAtonin said: Math is universal and predates organic life; it was discovered, saying it was invented is akin to saying we invented fire.
before man there was no bath, math is an extension of language. nothing more
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal] 1
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Math as a system of symbols used to convey information is invented. The way the symbols interact and the meaning they hold to other humans trained to comprehend them is a product of human imagining. Math is a tool conceived of by people.
Math as a means of comprehending the world is discovered. If a human has two apples and eats one, he or she is presumably aware that only one of the apples remains, regardless of the capacity to express that awareness through mathematical symbols. A tool effectively 'becomes' a tool when applied to a task.
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math is a scam used only to weed out dumb motherfuckers like me from overpopulating schools and colleges
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: akira_akuma]
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Math cannot explain conciousness and one must be awake to count.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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LogicaL Chaos said: I believe the Universe runs on math. Math is Universal. Its everywhere and within everything. Humans just made an abstract explaination of a real world thing.
Adding substracting dividing multiplying (im looking at u bunnies and mice) its all there already. Even calculus trig and geometry is in nature.
When you say math is universal it reminds me of south parks classroom poster 
But interesting stuff there logical..as always
Haha thats where i got it from. South Park is right: math is Universal as in it exists throughout the entire Universe.
For example the gravity constant. Time can be made accurate using quartz crystals. Time is math. The atomic clock runs on the propertie of atoms. Water always freezes at a specific temp. Log numbers exist in nature especially when it comes to biology.
Math is the backbone to hard sciences. They are forever intertwined.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: luvdemboomers]
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Math is disordered language is invented the math was always there looking at us
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Quite the mind fuck yes?
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
#24003498 - 01/12/17 09:31 AM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Math is an invention.
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It can be. When you use math to describe or predict observations that is science. But math can be done without any science too. There is no requirement that math must model observations and be testable. That is why math isnt a science in the strict sense. People can, and do, do math in its own right with no regard to observations and phenomenon. (But it may be hard to get funding in that case!)
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: DieCommie]
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Math was created, and it is tailored to our understanding. Nature is not math but the process we use to understand it is.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Caine]
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Caine said: Well, I don't know, this is a tricky question. To use a pop sci example, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - for instance, when examining an electron: you can't measure the electron's velocity and position at the same time. Of course, the electron has a position and velocity at any given time, it's just impossible to determine experimentally. Maybe that's a bad example but mathematics is full of little bumps like this one.
This is not correct. The uncertainty principle is not about experimental limitations. The full description of an electron's state does not include a position and a velocity at any given time. This is an example of science not behaving intuitively, but that doesn't make it wrong or incomplete. It means our intuition is ignorant.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Shroomslip]
#24003550 - 01/12/17 09:46 AM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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Shroomslip said: Math exists everywhere in the universe. The names, symbols, words etc we use to describe it may be created by us, but the principles they're based on are constant regardless of language or beings intelligent enough to name it.
yup. mathematics is basically the language of the universe... in a sense, it's what drives everything. imo, everything IS mathematics on some level, and i think it's a starting place for the argument that reality is a simulation.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Shroomslip]
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Shroomslip said: Math exists everywhere in the universe. The names, symbols, words etc we use to describe it may be created by us, but the principles they're based on are constant regardless of language or beings intelligent enough to name it.
That is true of all inventions. The principles that the wheel is based on are constant regardless of beings actually constructing one. Yet we still consider the wheel an invention. A computer operates on principles that existed long before man - yet we also consider a computer to be invented.
If math is a discovery, then so is the wheel and the computer and so is everything we invent.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404]
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yup. mathematics is basically the language of the universe... in a sense, it's what drives everything. imo, everything IS mathematics on some level, and i think it's a starting place for the argument that reality is a simulation.
use math to explain a rock
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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mathematics refers to a study as we know it of the underlying way things work. it's always been there, the language that you and i see it in however, has not been around forever. the universe is an infinitely sized mathematical equation that is constantly crunching/balancing out. cells divide, asteroids follow trajectories, temperatures increase and decrease, and fluids flow etc. math is there, its how everything works.Quote:
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Shroomslip said: Math exists everywhere in the universe. The names, symbols, words etc we use to describe it may be created by us, but the principles they're based on are constant regardless of language or beings intelligent enough to name it.
yup. mathematics is basically the language of the universe... in a sense, it's what drives everything. imo, everything IS mathematics on some level, and i think it's a starting place for the argument that reality is a simulation.
use math to explain a rock
how big is the rock? what is the rock made up of? how many atoms are in the rock? what about the dimensions? do we get into the physics of the rock being ejected from a larger rock after being smashed by another rock of x proportion?
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404]
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We use the process to understand but doesnt mean nature is run on it. The way we construct logic does not mean its the only way to achieve the same results math can explain. Where we are very pattern based thinkers and always find connections within things its only our logic can apply to what we see and experience. Maybe its all wrong and we are living in a delusion of thinking this is how the universe works..
I'm high as shit right now too so I am sorry if I sound dumb hahaha. Its hard to collect my thoughts right nowh haha
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404]
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use math to explain a rock
how big is the rock? what is the rock made up of? how many atoms are in the rock? what about the dimensions? do we get into the physics of the rock being ejected from a larger rock after being smashed by another rock of x proportion?
I said to explain the rock with math, not tell us how it got there or what size it is
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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It's invented cuzz its a tool lyke ur mom
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: cannabinated]
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we were debating this in my theory of knowledge class and after giving my opinion and hearing a few other peoples' I just realized I don't give a shit its something, math is something
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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use math to explain a rock
how big is the rock? what is the rock made up of? how many atoms are in the rock? what about the dimensions? do we get into the physics of the rock being ejected from a larger rock after being smashed by another rock of x proportion?
I said to explain the rock with math, not tell us how it got there or what size it is
i could explain the rock in terms of math if i had more info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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We could link to some fancy equations, he wouldn't understand or believe it anyway.
Simple numbers to describe the macroscopic size and weight. A collection of vectors to describe the shape. Use quantum theory to describe the chemical makeup and behavior. Use classical mechanics to describe its macroscopic motion.
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It really just depends what we are referring to by "Math" if we mean the laws that the universe follows, then obviously we discovered them.
However Math is not equivelant to the laws of the universe, the laws are there regardless of whether there is anyone around to understand them, but mathematics is the language created by humans to try to understand these laws.
Therefore math was invented by humans, but it is used to discover universal truths about the universe.
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"Truths about the universe" is the realm of religious mystics and philosophers. The laws you speak of are mathematical laws. They are models when it comes to describing the universe. That is an important distinction.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: DieCommie]
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Two men see two cows. One of them thought about it and discovered (learned) that there are two cows, but he is unable to communicate this idea. When he communicates it, he has invented the idea of mathematics.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: psilly the kid]
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psilly the kid said: Math is disordered language is invented the math was always there looking at us
math is a big pervert.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Shroomslip said: Math exists everywhere in the universe. The names, symbols, words etc we use to describe it may be created by us, but the principles they're based on are constant regardless of language or beings intelligent enough to name it.
yup. mathematics is basically the language of the universe... in a sense, it's what drives everything. imo, everything IS mathematics on some level, and i think it's a starting place for the argument that reality is a simulation.
use math to explain a rock
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404] 1
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math is constructed.
when there is a construct, such as "rock", the terms used to mathematically define "rock" are invented terms, but not invented aspects of "rock"- they are discovered aspects of "rock".
but the terminology and symbols used to define it are invented.
so the definition is constructed from the terminology and the real-world existence of "rock".
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Bill_Oreilly] 1
#24004358 - 01/12/17 02:45 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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A rock contains some trillion molecules, weighs a specific amount of weight caused by the constant force of gravity, measured by complex geometry.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos] 2
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the methods to measure are static, but the measurements themselves are never static, unless you're talking about utter duplicates of things. all rocks are slightly different, thus give different results through said "static measurements".
these results needs be extrapolated by these methods, or you garner no new information.
this information is dependent on the methods of extrapolation, thus, this information is obscured by predilections on methodology; ie, what is the best method for measuring this data?
these methods are invented by man, thus the interpretations are predicated by the inventions to derive data measurements from objects.
thus said interpretations are only as real as the methods used to define them.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: akira_akuma]
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: psilly the kid]
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LogicaL Chaos said: A rock contains some trillion molecules, weighs a specific amount of weight caused by the constant force of gravity, measured by complex geometry.
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LogicaL Chaos said: A rock contains some trillion molecules, weighs a specific amount of weight caused by the constant force of gravity, measured by complex geometry.
But it's never the same twice. No constructed thought tool will ever be able to completely describe anything.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: pineninja]
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Actually, there are a finite number of variables and values that go into a rock's formation. It may be an extraordinarily long number, but given enough time the same pattern should repeat at some point. Just because that time table is so large it's pretty much incomprehensible to us, doesn't mean it's impossible.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Shroomslip]
#24004572 - 01/12/17 03:47 PM (7 years, 18 days ago) |
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i could be wrong, but the "is never the same" part might have been a quantum mechanics reference?
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Shroomslip said: Actually, there are a finite number of variables and values that go into a rock's formation. It may be an extraordinarily long number, but given enough time the same pattern should repeat at some point. Just because that time table is so large it's pretty much incomprehensible to us, doesn't mean it's impossible.
it's a calculation of a mathematical object, that which is an entity constructed by intuitive computation by using abstracts to create quasi-empirical theorems.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Shroomslip] 1
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Shroomslip said: Actually, there are a finite number of variables and values that go into a rock's formation. It may be an extraordinarily long number, but given enough time the same pattern should repeat at some point. Just because that time table is so large it's pretty much incomprehensible to us, doesn't mean it's impossible.
Fundamentally disagree. Chaos exists. During the very action of measurement you shift outcomes.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: pineninja]
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True, there is no absolute theory for ALL rocks, its on a specific rock-to-rock basis.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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I'm also talking about that singular rock never being the same twice.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
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Mathematics is invented OP. It is a tool created by humans to help our brains process the universe.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: pineninja]
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I'm not sure how this matters. We know nature is in flux. Describing that change is part of what describing our observations with math is about.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: DieCommie]
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So is maths intrinsically a part of nature, or a just a tool being used to somewhat describe it?
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: pineninja]
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I already answered that, its an invention. And its far more powerful than "somewhat". Predictions from scientific theory that uses math are accurate to over a dozen decimal places.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: DieCommie]
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Then we agree But that "accuracy" is relative only to your sense of achievement.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: 404]
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use math to explain a rock
how big is the rock? what is the rock made up of? how many atoms are in the rock? what about the dimensions? do we get into the physics of the rock being ejected from a larger rock after being smashed by another rock of x proportion?
I said to explain the rock with math, not tell us how it got there or what size it is
i could explain the rock in terms of math if i had more info ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
fine, the rock is granite
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Prisoner#1]
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invented: i'm on the 'fictionalist'/'anti-realist' side of the mathematical realism debate for now. our mathematical models are predictive rather than descriptive.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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LogicaL Chaos said: A rock contains some trillion molecules, weighs a specific amount of weight caused by the constant force of gravity, measured by complex geometry.
Thats just observation created by the viewer, though. You invented that based on rules scientists invented
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal]
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The laws of physics, which are essentially laws of mathematics, were discovered not invented.
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I think a lot of folks are getting hung up on applied mathematics. Describing the universe with mathematical models is always an approximation (sometimes very good). Theoretical math, however, is by definition true. The relationships and patterns among numbers have always existed, and our equations have simply discovered things.
Mathematics as the formal language is most definitely invented. Yet it is used to make discoveries.
Dumb example: the hypotenuse of a right triangle squared will always equal sqrt(a^2+b^2). That relationship has always existed for that shape.
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imo
the laws of physics are immutable. the descriptions (the language- symbolic and otherwise) of said laws are not. math is a language. the universe does not speak. it's only a nice metaphor.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: akira_akuma]
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I have to say maybe depends on the definition of math you use
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: millzy]
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millzy said: invented: i'm on the 'fictionalist'/'anti-realist' side of the mathematical realism debate for now. our mathematical models are predictive rather than descriptive.
They are both. What happens when you model a phenomenon after the fact? Then its descriptive. The only difference between being predictive vs descriptive is when you develop the model. You can throw a ball, then I can model it after the fact to describe its motion. Or, I can model the motion and predict how it will move.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: DieCommie]
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I want to revive this.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: Patlal] 1
#27413459 - 08/03/21 07:34 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Is math a construct. Or was it always there to find. Strangely enough the answer is love The one thing it cant define.
This transcendental geometry. That words cannot possibly convey. Deeper than fundamentally It's both the observer...and the day.
An exploration of an unassailable self. The fingers with which we feel. A mathematical pinch is just. Proving ourselves to be real.
It hurts because we are the same. Both the math and the mind. Take the mask of separateness away. You may be surprised by which answer you find.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: pineninja]
#27413464 - 08/03/21 07:36 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
#27413468 - 08/03/21 07:41 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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LogicaL Chaos said: If u believe in God, math is discovered.
If u dont believe in God, math is invented.
Yer welcome.

I believe God invented math
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: gopher]
#27413480 - 08/03/21 07:49 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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But den who invented gawd
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: The Blind Ass]
#27413483 - 08/03/21 07:51 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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God didnt need to be invented, he was discovered
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: gopher] 1
#27413487 - 08/03/21 07:55 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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Explain like I’m five and high.
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Re: Is mathematics invented or discovered? [Re: The Blind Ass]
#27413513 - 08/03/21 08:12 PM (2 years, 5 months ago) |
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great t-shirt.
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