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Re:Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy by notforgot on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:05PM (#13537147)
"1 + 1 = 2" is true and objective for an infinite time period.
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Re:Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy by hyperdunc on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:54PM (#13537478)
But if you want to share that truth it relies on a mutual understanding of what those symbols mean.

The language of math is near universal, but political language isn't.

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Re:Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy by wu-ikkyu on Thursday February 02, 2017 @11:52AM (#13551986)
That's cool if you're trying to program a rudimentary calculator.

However, "Truth" in the sociological sense is not constrained to mathematics.

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