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Functor97 said:Very interesting. Are you claiming that mathematics is in essence a calculating game? Your interpretation would make mathematics no different to physics, which is often disparaged for lacking rigor.
I guess my question is, can mathematics ever be perfectly rigorous?
Mathematics is a language, and like any language it is evolving.
If inconsistencies are found in math, like any language, it needs to go through reformulation.
This happens with every language.
There is an important facet though of mathematics that is somewhat paradoxical: mathematics is able to be so broad, yet so precise. This kind of property makes it a great language as not many languages have this property.
If our descriptive capacity is lacking to consistently describe something, we will ultimately have to create lingual definitions that fill the gap: this is what has happened before and I don't see it stopping anytime soon.