On: Does mathematics need a philosophy?

[fallingknife]

Words are not a perfect mapping to the reality they describe. Never understood why people spend so much time worrying about it.

[BlueTemplar → fallingknife]

Because this is such an easy and common trap to fall into (because it's a very economical shortcut ?), we need to be super vigilant about it ?

Speaking of which, might the feeling about the existence of numbers come from a similar shortcoming in our neurological structure ?

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHNzpX38HkZQrdYn3/philosophy...

Not directly related, we're now surrounded by computers, which are even dumber (some forms of machine learning and analog computers aside ?) in that they have zero flexibility in treating symbols as something else...