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What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That truth is absolute. It's very much subjective. Much in the way right and wrong are subjective.

Life is complicated and things don't fit into perfect little boxes.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Except when it comes to Math. Math is absolute, as long as you ignore statistics.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

as long as you ignore statistics

See? Conditions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gotta ignore infinities too. The axioms they're based on are highly controversial.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

And ~~irrational~~ imaginary numbers. I mean the numbers make sense, but it’s not like we can intuitively understand sqrt(-1).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're thinking of imaginary numbers. Irrational numbers are real numbers that have an infinite number of decimal places and don't repeat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Lol. Yes. Don’t drink and Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Your example is a complex number. An irrational number would be Pi or sqrt(5)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nah even statistics is perfectly logical and right, but not because truth is absolute (there may be such a thing, but we definitely don't have access to it in that case. [At this time?]), but rather because math defined there to be a way in which all you derive from it is 'absolutely' true. It just might be 'absolutely' true in a system that isn't ours, or isn't useful for answering anything we want to ask...