Thread: 40 Days of Indefatigable Copying and Pasting
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Unread 16 Jul 2006, 18:47   #153
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Re: 40 Days of Infallible Proofs
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Its backwards to say that mathematics is true because it follows from axioms; the axioms (and formal system) were invented after the fact in order to ground results which were largely already known.
Perhaps it would be better to say that mathematics is true as a brute fact and that the axioms are merely manifestations of our awareness of mathematics?

That sounds rather platonic doesn't it?
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