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		whatshisface on April 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The physicalization of metamathematics and the imp... Religion is slightly different though, they claim actual direct truth (not mere truth of implication given certain assumptions) which makes their claims more interesting but prevents them from claiming automatic objective truth. The Formal Gospel would go, "If God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, ..." ;)

thwayunion on April 7, 2022 [–]

That's why I used words like "spirituality" and "faith" instead of "religion" and "dogma".

I'm describing a shared social/psychological phenomenon, not a shared epistemological status.

Read my posts less as works of the philosophy of mathematics and more as anthropological musings.

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