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 Originally Posted by rpm
my question is on what grounds do you claim mathematics to be inherently beautiful? my general perspective is that nothing can be inherently beautiful, but if there did exist such a thing as inherent beauty, mathematics would have the least amount of it on the planet. ok now i'm starting to sound like a troll but i am genuinely curious about this connection you are making between "beauty" and "solving problems with numbers"
Not to derail a derail, but I think you mean intrinsic. I can't imagine you're skeptical that inherent goods don't exist. If you're talking about intrinsic, then I'm right there with you. I don't really understand what the fuck intrinsic good/bad even means, and I imagine it's just a holdover from simplistic theistic worldviews where there exists good vs evil that are independent of perspective.
Anyway, I think MMM could make a very good case for math having an inherent "beauty". In fact, I'll go as far as to say that something that lies at the heart of our physical world, and also potentially defines the limits of epistemology certainly seems to have some kind of intrinsicness to it, but I just don't really understand what the fuck good and bad mean outside of instrumental terms, so I wouldn't call it an intrinsic good.
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