Beyond the One and Only Truth(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Beyond the One and Only Truth
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/pluralism-beyond-the-one-and-only-truth/
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It is interesting. My own opinion is that only mathematical truth can be "true" and "real", although any expression of that is necessarily short of the absolute truth. The universe and laws of physics may be an instantiation of that, but it may be deterministic or nondeterministic I don't know, or, even more strange, maybe there are equally valid ways for it to be either. It is true though that a scientific theory can only make a model of what it is, rather than the absolute law of physics. But there can be more than one way that works. Even if there is one correct way, scientific experiments cannot prove stuff absolutely like you can with mathematics, anyways. This article seems to suggest even more than what I have, maybe (I am not sure exactly what they are saying).
Why use scare quotes in your second sentence? If you meant
Only mathematical truth can be true and real.
then why not say so. Secondly - that sentence doesn't seem a mathematical truth, being about not in mathematics, and if true would be its own counterexample.
Only mathematical truth can be true and real.
then why not say so. Secondly - that sentence doesn't seem a mathematical truth, being about not in mathematics, and if true would be its own counterexample.