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Is Mathematics a Science?

1 pointsby grosalesabout 16 years ago

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Allocator2008about 16 years ago
Yes. Because science is concerned epistomologically with that which is objectively true. Given certain axioms, certain statements can be shown to be objectively true, or "true" given those axioms. Math is "out there", meaning it can be discovered as objective truth by anyone regardless of cultural context. Does it always correspond to the natural world? Likely not. But it is still "true" in the sense of a coherent system of axioms.