On 6/14/2015 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Arithmetic is full of life, ... and taxes and death.
But it needs interpretation to be full of death and taxes. Otherwise it is just abstract relations. That's exactly why it is so useful; the same relations hold under many different interpretations. I recently asked on a mathematicians forum for a definition of mathematics. The common ones were the study of relations and the study of patterns.
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