What is your most extreme take that is sufficiently unrelated to the culture war that you wouldn't be cancelled for it?

— Matt Osterndorf (@MattOsterndorf) August 5, 2020

That Wittgensteinian “language games” and the math that we do (“math games”) are not much different, really, and only because the fuzziness of much of quantification has been well-concealed do we think that math offers some Eternal Truth while using words is doomed to vagueness.

Math can and does achieve many things words alone cannot easily do. But math is not the world, and that’s where we are unbelievably confused and misled.