In a way this is a question in History of Science and all attempts at decolonizing etc. - is there a part in science that exists independent of context? Dare I say “truth”? @MBarany might have a take on this? https://twitter.com/trekonomics/status/1134205376016994305 …
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Mathematical concepts are always formulated in specific social contexts, so the invented/discovered distinction amounts to asking whether that formulation correpsonds to something context-free, and the answer is we just can't know because we're always working within contexts.
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I don't know why Mario Biagioli's term "discovention" never took offpic.twitter.com/BJwxEmfqdn
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