Carlo Rovelli stops short of saying that 2+2=5 but the article gives every sense that many would love to go there if only they could get some kind of a nudge. It is far to say that the war on Platonism is just the war on math, PhD version.
Tag: war on math
At New Scientist: Fuzzy law threatens mathematics
New Scientist — as a culture — would probably always been happier joining the war on math, and this sounds like a way of testing the waters. But we shall see.
New podcast offers blatant heresy: Two plus two make four
James Lindsay, one of Peter Boghossian’s fellow hoaxers of the Woke folk, discusses the war on math in this podcast.
Arithmetic as racism: A teacher’s reflections on the progressive war on math
Mahlberg: English philosopher G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) saw the early signs of the West’s abandonment of objective truth, and in a cheeky tone, he warned: We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green…
Another Woke math educator: Math is “white supremacist patriarchy”
Carr apparently believes that the people who discovered theorems in math actually invented them the way a novelist writes a novel.
One of Boghossian’s hoaxers started the Woke on the 2 plus 2 equals five drive?
Meanwhile, Lindsay has a blog keeping track of Woke folk and other unfunny crazies, where he says he himself might have started off the 2 + 2 = 5 crazy, intending only to explain to someone how the Woke think.
Nancy Pearcey: A dispatch from the Woke war on math
Nancy Pearcey: Critical theorists argue that mathematics is just another arbitrary human creation that has been used to privilege certain groups while excluding others.