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It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. the fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.
-Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell
It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. the fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.
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