Arguably, there is no objective truth
Yes there is, just look in Maths textbooks
since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily
The signs are, the rules aren’t.
are basically a social contract, just like language!
Nope and nope. It’s a tool for calculating things, nothing like a language at all.
no objective meaning of “objective”
There is, in a dictionary, just like the rules of Maths are in Maths textbooks
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)