People who need to refer to childhood science and education are living in a tiny dreamworld literally designed to be easy to understand.
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Replying to @Hbomberguy
If TERFs treated maths the way they treat biology, they'd be disavowing the concept of negative numbers…
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Replying to @sarahlicity @Hbomberguy
It feels like a "everyone knows integers; complex numbers are approximations of ints" argument. Their truth is a naive subset of reality.
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Replying to @sarahlicity @Hbomberguy
I've watched some of his stuff a while ago but didn't realize he was controversial. Good to know.
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Replying to @jmlane @Hbomberguy
tbh the only thing about him that annoys people is his insistence that real numbers don't exist. :p
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Replying to @EvilNinjadude @sarahlicity and
I mean, numbers, in general, don't "exist"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EvilNinjadude and
Yeah but NJW's claim isn't so much that numbers don't exist, rather that infinite sets don't exist within maths; he claims that any (cont)
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Replying to @hwd405 @arthur_affect and
number with a non-recurring decimal expansion must be "wrong" in some way or not exist - he believes the set of real numbers doesn't exist
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Yeah iirc this is "constructivism"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @EvilNinjadude and
Something like that yeah, I've heard "finitism" used to describe it too
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Replying to @hwd405 @EvilNinjadude and
I get not being interested in Cantor but being mad at him is silly
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