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Re:What Is Math? by loopz on Saturday September 26, 2020 @07:54AM (#24598094)
We have taxonomies of objects and concepts, but do we have taxonomy of relationships? This might continue to mystify us as long as we try to push the square block into the round hole. It worked so well with the smaller pieces..

Every new discovery started with a question and letting go of some assertions.

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Re:What Is Math? by mceldeen on Saturday September 26, 2020 @09:21AM (#24598619)
Category Theory might be a good fit for this. There’s even a category of morphisms (relationships). Perhaps I’m misunderstanding your comment.
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Re:What Is Math? by aliceryhl on Saturday September 26, 2020 @12:06PM (#24599789)
Yes. The book Thinking about mathematics by Stewart Shapiro covers it in chapter 10 and calls it Structuralism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism_(philosophy_of_m...

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