Comment by brap
6 days ago
I think maybe I didn’t really explain myself properly. I didn’t mean that math is real in the sense that atoms are real. Perhaps “true” would be a better word. We know these things are true to us, but are they universally true? If that’s even a thing? Hope that makes more sense.
The age-old problem of a respondent using different definitions of words than the OP.
Socrates made a whole career out of it.
Mathematics is a philosophy that focuses on the study of logic. It's a bit of an exaggeration to conflate mathematics with 'truth' in an absolute, universal sense.
Mathematical 'truths' are themselves only true in the sense that they can be derived from axioms.
The fact that mathematics can be used to understand the world around us is nothing short of a mystery (or a miracle).