If you truly believe that math is created by humans, you have no business in math.
The ways that we *describe* math are, no doubt, a social construct, but math itself is the discovery of underlying reality. https://t.co/z5ce8hLCTZ
— Heather E Heying (@HeatherEHeying) October 3, 2020
Amusing that Heying believes she has somehow proved that Platonism is true. This is not at all clear, and nearly everyone in her thread (including Heying) sounds like an uneducated simpleton — but it’s hard to blame them. Our education system simply is not very good and here you can see the results of that dereliction of teaching and learning.
This sums it up, though:
Watching STEM trying to do philosophy is hilarious as it is embarrassing. It’s like watching a giraffe try to Ice dance.
— Dogspeed You! Snack Emperor (@patrick_weir) October 3, 2020
It is indeed amusing and, as the kids these days say, cringe. They’re like toddlers fighting over a dropped ice cream cone on a Slip ‘n Slide. They (again, including Heying) don’t even understand the question much less what a possible answer could be like.
Why do these people even bother to go to college? It does them absolutely no good.