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Numbers are concepts, as is the logic that manipulates them.
Concepts borne of our own imaginations, as reference points for shared experience.
These concepts are not absolutes, they do not exist in anything but the human mind.
Maths is _our_, _human_ method of describing what we see, our experiences, in a formalised manner and as such, it is entirely subjective.
As subjective as any other language, as abstract as money, faith and love.
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"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Winston Churchill, 1937 --{ORLY?}--
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