Mathematics wasn't discovered or invented.
Mathematics is an adaptation that increases organisms fitness (ability to grow+survive+reproduce).
It formed randomly due to sequence of mutations in organisms DNA, and remained due to natural selection because it was useful.
Any knowledge humans have is just arrangement of molecules in nervous system that formed randomly and was supported by natural selection.
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I completely agree with you though.
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>Any knowledge humans have is just arrangement of molecules in nervous system that formed randomly and was supported by natural selection.
Naive reductionism is naive.
Any non-commutative statement of form "X is Y" where X and Y both refer to 0-dimensional object can't express any new information.
For example
>Naive reductionism is naive
Except it does, just like 'war is war' does. Language is more than semantics, it's also pragmatics.
>Appealing to pragmatics
Nu-sophist detected.
Pragmatics is actually a very interesting field of linguistics, I don't know where you get the idea that it has anything to do with the sophists.
Wrong. There is no question to where the answer "War is war" provides more information. Obvious exception is where the same words (war) don't refer to same object or event.
For example
>A: "Dog" is the name of my pet.
>B: What species is "Dog"?
>A: Dog is dog.
>Pragmatics is actually a very interesting field of linguistics
Interesting to who?
You?
Very sloppy power of expression do you have there.
>I don't know where you get the idea
>The ability to understand another speaker's intended meaning is called pragmatic competence.
No wonder you might consider it interesting, you are probably studying it so you can work of your awful pragmatic incompetence.