IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH MATH? 1) A great deal is wrong with math in the sense tha

IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH MATH?
1) A great deal is wrong with math in the sense that the externalities produced by the framework of of its evolution are vast and negatively consequential.

2) Yes. You are correct that matter is discrete (operational, computational) and physics is continuous (statistical, calculative), and the failure of this comprehension has led to founding mathematics on sets instead of operations.

3) In economics we are painfully aware of the limits of mathematics and we account for those limits even if most economists use the wrong calculus in their calculations. In physics they are more likely to use the correct calculus but not understand the limits of mathematics. In mathematics all to often they use platonic forms and create and export nonsense ideas to justify what would be perfectly rational if explained operationally (for example the square of negative one).

So the claim from mathematicians that ‘it works and we don’t want to reform’ is the same reason philosophy died by the 1970s.

CD

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