On 01/06/2015 17:39, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
>> But seriously I would be grateful if someone could give me a concrete=20
>> explanation why maths is real and not just a figmant of my imagination.
> Math is not real.=20

This is a 3000 years debate!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality*
> Philosophers, mathematicians, and other ancient and modern thinkers, such=
 as
> Aristotle, Plato, Frege, Wittgenstein, and Russell, have made a distincti=
on
> between thought corresponding to reality, coherent abstractions (thoughts=
 of
> things that are imaginable but not real), and that which cannot even be
> rationally thought. By contrast existence is often restricted solely to t=
hat
> which has physical existence or has a direct basis in it in the way that
> thoughts do in the brain.
          Nicola

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