
Ep 14: Ch 8, Part 2: "A Window on Infinity"
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Problems Are Solvable
i'm going to skip that section, but i encourage everyone to read it. David writes about the limitations about what we can know. And he says, how do all those drastic limitations on what can be known square with the maxim that problems are soluble? Well, problems are conflicts between ideas. Most, most mathematical questions that exist abstractly never appear as the subject of such a conflict. In short, most of them are uninteresting. Finding proofs is not the purpose of mathematics. The purpose is to understand. One does not understand a mathematical proposition merely by proving it true. E can't ask that because it's beyond the universe. But these are bad explanations, ica theyr
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