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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Except when it comes to Math. Math is absolute, as long as you ignore statistics.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they're based on are highly controversial.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    And irrational imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Nah even statistics is perfectly logical and right, but not because truth is absolute (there may be such a thing, but we definitely don't have access to it in that case. [At this time?]), but rather because math defined there to be a way in which all you derive from it is 'absolutely' true. It just might be 'absolutely' true in a system that isn't ours, or isn't useful for answering anything we want to ask...

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