If you think mathematics isn’t – like science – trial and error, then you never

If you think mathematics isn’t – like science – trial and error, then you never managed to learn long division.

I can’t really communicate how frustrated this made me in fourth grade. I just assumed I didn’t understand something if it was all trial and error. But I did understand: it’s trial and error.

Mathematics doesn’t justify anything. It proves something is POSSIBLE.

All logics criticize, none of them justify or confirm. Survival tells us possibility not truth.

This is why mathematicians construct proofs, and why praxeologists/operationalists construct proofs of existential possibility.

Because we are testing whether something is possible.

But many roads lead to Rome.

We do not know it is the one we have chosen.

We only know that it is possible to get to Rome.

And therefore we have a truth candidate.