Not a strawman. I’m not stating that math isn’t real. It’s real as an abstract framework that humans create and refine. It’s not, however, foundational to the physical world in the way fundamental particles or gravity…
Mathematics is just a tool, like language, for describing reality, not reality itself. A cake is not made of numbers like 5 cups flour + 3 eggs, but we can model it as such. In principle we could invent any such system…
Not a strawman. I’m not stating that math isn’t real. It’s real as an abstract framework that humans create and refine. It’s not, however, foundational to the physical world in the way fundamental particles or gravity…
Mathematics is just a tool, like language, for describing reality, not reality itself. A cake is not made of numbers like 5 cups flour + 3 eggs, but we can model it as such. In principle we could invent any such system…