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> All questions that find an answer will have come through a science by definition of what science is.

No, that's a definition of scientism, which is very much pseudoscience. Your idea is so wrong that is excludes all answers to mathematical questions, which are, in fact, unscientific.




How are mathematical questions unscientific?


> How are mathematical questions unscientific?

Because the essential quality of science is empirically testing hypotheses against physical observations, and math doesn't work like that at all.




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