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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The rules underpinning math are axioms in the end, but they're not completely arbitrary, because if you change them in most cases it just fucks everything up.

The axioms that were chosen were chosen for good reason, and the rules they result in (such as summation and multiplication being commutative so 3x4=4x3 and 3+4=4+3) allow more complex rules to be created.

There's a lot of philosophy of math at the core of all this , but it's not really true that this is all arbitrary.

[โ€“] cucumber_sandwich 1 points 11 months ago

But commutation is not an axiom, is it?