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		andreareina on Feb 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers Science has nothing to do with it, rather it's a question of philosophy and what we define as being real.

dTal on Feb 10, 2022 [–]

Science is "what we have evidence for". Is there evidence for some abstract mathematics that we didn't invent?

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