Okay, it is time for the rare direct political engagement from the RotemEren account: Math is just logical deduction from quantitative hypotheses, which are the most metaphysically parsimonious theories, so if math is socially constructed, so is every other theoretical science.
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Well sure, but mathematical logic and physics have pretty sophisticated methods for recognizing similar theories under different notation, so the question of whether those methods could have produced different results goes deeper than a question of arbitrary signs.
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but sometimes X is socially constructed* *as a particular set of signifiers dealing with immutable physical constraints
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