@PhilosophyExp Fermat's Last Theorem is an abstraction. We don't need science to deal with abstractions.
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@PhilosophyExp But science tells us the limits of what we can say to be true about what is real, especially about ourselves.
@sjzara So mathematical truths aren't about things that are "real" (this is a topic that haunted Bertrand Russell)?
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@PhilosophyExp That is a headache-inducing topic! I'm not sure what status mathematics should have. -
@sjzara Indeed. I don't feel remotely qualified to comment on it at all - except to flag it up as an issue. -
@PhilosophyExp It's something that leaves me totally baffled!
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