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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

-- It's about nothing.

-- No sets?

-- No, forget the sets.

-- You've got to have sets.

-- Who says you've got to have sets? Remember when we were talking about functions of functions? That could be a theory all by itself.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

So they are metagaming mathematics?

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I don't know that much of history, but by my accounts category theory is metagaming the metagame of the original mathematics metagamers.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

So we're at least 4 metas deep at this point?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 8 months ago

Just wait until the infinity mathematicians shows up and starts assigning cardinalities to the level of meta

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