Why do we believe in math?

[Savy]

Yeah, you and I have similar conceptions of a plate, and we may find some edge-cases to argue over, but my sense of a plate and your sense of a plate are pretty close. The difficulty is when we try to definitively square-away plate-ness between each other.

What's quite funny to me is that whilst posting in this thread I was really drunk and I seemingly mostly made sense. I sent some text messages around the same time and they mostly didn't.

Language is a lossy compression algorithm for thought. Words are compressed thoughts rounded to something that most closely resembles the original.

I like this.