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That gets into the invention vs. discovery dilemma, but mathematics is just a rule system with which we can make models of natural phenomena. Despite multiple efforts to try to resolve all paradoxes, we instead eventually developed a proof that no sufficiently complex system of mathematics can be made without paradox.