Are Numbers Real?

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It’s more like every single person draws up their own moral (mathematical) system, and so what is true in one system is not true in another. It just so happens that certain mathematical systems are so incredibly useful that it’s highly practical to all use the same one in most applied tasks.

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Maths applied through science can give us data and predict outcomes, but it can’t tell us which outcomes are preferable without also including exact criteria for what "preferable" means. It can’t do the ethics for you.