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Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:27PM (#33613753)
> “The concept of mathematics being purely objective is unequivocally false”

Stop. Right. There.

Where do they get this "unequivocally false"? That sounds like they think they have something "purely objective" in... sociology, maybe? They're using their "purely objective" sociology to judge the objectivity of math, and finding math to be non-objective.

That's insane. These people should be barred from math and sociology.

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Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics by readthenotes1 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @05:20PM (#33615908)
You got your Axiom of Choice and Goëdel's Theorems to contend with in math.

In sociology, you got the replicability crisis (aka, it's mostly bulkshit).

The Sociologists want to bring that to mathematics so that the marginalized of the world don't feel inferior.

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