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@vriska @shmibs it is the description of nature
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@dhfir @pernia @vriska @meeper > "the experiments are inside my head so they don't count as real experiments"> dude gedanks his way to special relativity without you
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@meeper @pernia @vriska @shmibs math is logic without induction.Logic without induction is not science.
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@pernia @vriska @shmibs humans made math; humans are natural -> math is natural hence math is a science.
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@dhfir @pernia @vriska @meeper every time a person does new-theorem it's 1. based on such preexisting knowledge and 2. hopefully confirmed by experiments run on other brains etc> "does this new bit of maths work?"> 800 yehs and one no> okkie, good enough
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@shmibs @pernia @vriska @meeper 1. Those were based on a preexisting scientific knowledge rooted in axioms based on induction2. The theory of relativity was later confirmed by non-gedanken-experiments.