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Originally Posted by grip_daddy
Just shows how basing reasoning on the so called scientific facts is foolish.
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Reasoning is based on axioms. Those axioms are flexible!
Some of these axioms seem quasi-demonstrable, eg the concept of a line: take a ruler and draw something on a paper and say, "hey that's a line." But how do you demonstrate a negative number??? It is just an inference (3 - 4 = -1), a deduction, ie in your mind only (at least for now). But science doesn't stop --
you can use these indemonstrable concepts to create practical technologies.
As I said, there are several geometries which are incompatible with each other. It has been proven that any system of moderate complexity will eventually reveal self-contradictions (Kurt Godel). That does not undo the system, since these things only exist in our minds anyway, as convenient perceptions and abstractions.