Talk:Q395
Latest comment: 9 months ago by TomT0m in topic Why is this a class?
Autodescription — mathematics (Q395)
description: field of study
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Why is this a class?
editWhat does "a mathematics" even mean? Have you seen a mathematics? I haven't. Mathematics is a field of study, not a type of thing. ―Jochem van Hees (talk) 13:41, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
- I came here to change math from "natural science" to "formal science", but now I'm thinking about what you mentioned. I came here from statistics (Q12483), which is a subclass of mathematics (Q395). It feels both wright and wrong to say that. I'll have to think about this.
- Maybe it's better to think of this like "Field of mathematics", which is colloquially just summariszed to "math".
- I'll put a pin in that for now. Thanks! TimBorgNetzWerk (talk) 12:34, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- This is an ontological choice, there may not be a right or wrong answer. A discipline may be viewed as a science, a collection of knowledege, or as a practice, the practice of studying those object and formalizing them.
- Viewed as the first point of view, probability are a subclass of maths in the sense that it concerns more specific objects. It’s also true as a practice, as doing probability is also doing maths, a more specific activity.
- We might want to say (is the study of). Or if we take the enwiki article « Mathematics is an area of knowledge », in that sense we might argue that knowlegde about numbers is a kind of knowlegde, a subclass then. Maths would be a subclass of knowlegde, number theory a subclass of maths. Its instances would be facts about numbers, maybe. author TomT0m / talk page 13:54, 2 February 2024 (UTC)