What do you think of thios philosophers critigue of mathematics and science?

Question

What do you think of this authors critque of maths and science. He seems to be saying that even though they work maths and science have at their fundamental core paradox and self-contradictions which make them epistemolgically meaningingless . This indicates that sonething mysterious is rhe reason why they work as logic demonstrates that they are meaningless and it is assumed that logic is the arbitrator of truth

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Answer 1

Mathematics is an elaborate illusion. Sure its a useful illusion at times but it can't contain any hard 'meaning'.

Its like when Newtonian physics was shattered by Einstein. Until then the Laws of Thermodynamics were universally acclaimed by academics everywhere as being 'truth'. And not just 'truth' the absolute god-damn truth.

When Einstein came along and said that you can indeed convert matter into energy and vice versa, breaking the LAW of Conservation of matter, most people dismissed him as a well-meaning nut-case.

Well it turns out that Einstein was right. (Ask the people that live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki) This doesn't mean that Newtonian physics isn't useful - it is. It just isn't the absolute 'truth' as we so badly want to believe it to be.

And we little monkeys do seem to crave absolute truth but everywhere we seem to find it, it breaks down upon deeper inspection. Like I said Mathematics can be useful at times but there's no reason to accept it as absolutely 'true'.

Answer 2

Because this is the section were people can post question in the Science and Mathematics areas if needed hence the reason why it called Science and Mathematics.