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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish35•7 months ago– It’s about nothing. – No sets? – No, forget the sets. – You’ve got to have sets. – Who says you’ve got to have sets? Remember when we were talking about functions of functions? That could be a theory all by itself.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•7 months agoI don’t know that much of history, but by my accounts category theory is metagaming the metagame of the original mathematics metagamers.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•7 months agoSo we’re at least 4 metas deep at this point?
minus-squareNatanaellinkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoJust wait until the infinity mathematicians shows up and starts assigning cardinalities to the level of meta
– It’s about nothing.
– No sets?
– No, forget the sets.
– You’ve got to have sets.
– Who says you’ve got to have sets? Remember when we were talking about functions of functions? That could be a theory all by itself.
So they are metagaming mathematics?
I don’t know that much of history, but by my accounts category theory is metagaming the metagame of the original mathematics metagamers.
So we’re at least 4 metas deep at this point?
Just wait until the infinity mathematicians shows up and starts assigning cardinalities to the level of meta