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Stompy · 10-19-2004, 10:19 AM

It's a universal truth to us.

We don't have any other thing to compare math to for our practical purposes.

Like I said, you'd be describing the same thing. If you said "red" in english, you could say the same thing in german, chinese, whatever.

If you use the method, for example, to describe the volume of a sphere and I say 4/3*pi*r^3, if you have another method, great, but in the end we're saying the same thing.

Even if we discovered this alternate point of view, dimension, whatever, there would still exist the method to describe that object to how WE see it for OUR practical purposes.

That's why I think it's a discovery, but at the same time an invention.. because usually inventions are created out of need for something, yet .. we needed something to help us describe everything around us. What we came up with so far has matched what is. The symbols, numbers, etc... yes, we made up, but they are used to convey the same basic idea (to other humans).

If it wasn't a truth, then half the things we have or use today that are heavily dependant on mathematics couldn't exist. Could there big a bigger picture? Sure, but for now, it works.

10-19-2004, 10:19 AM	#23 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	It's a universal truth to us. We don't have any other thing to compare math to for our practical purposes. Like I said, you'd be describing the same thing. If you said "red" in english, you could say the same thing in german, chinese, whatever. If you use the method, for example, to describe the volume of a sphere and I say 4/3pir^3, if you have another method, great, but in the end we're saying the same thing. Even if we discovered this alternate point of view, dimension, whatever, there would still exist the method to describe that object to how WE see it for OUR practical purposes. That's why I think it's a discovery, but at the same time an invention.. because usually inventions are created out of need for something, yet .. we needed something to help us describe everything around us. What we came up with so far has matched what is. The symbols, numbers, etc... yes, we made up, but they are used to convey the same basic idea (to other humans). If it wasn't a truth, then half the things we have or use today that are heavily dependant on mathematics couldn't exist. Could there big a bigger picture? Sure, but for now, it works. __________________ I love lamp. Last edited by Stompy; 10-19-2004 at 10:22 AM..