Magic Poriferan
^He pronks, too!
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1. Because all the books say so.
I am now having doubts that you are being sincere.
2. It means generally men will be more interested in math than women. Not that men are "better".
I don't think that's true either, and I think it would follow from the claim that men would be better at math as it currently is.
3. Well, thats what we need to figure out.
You have to start somewhere, even somewhere extremely speculative.
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So you defend 2+4=6 because of "internal consistency".
But isn't the view you summarized above (that if there are no objective truths the job of science is to help mankind achieve our goals) internally consistent too? Why not defend that also? It definitely has a certain "utility", don't you think.
No, it's not internally consistent in the sense that I meant. I'm not going to explain what I meant, because it would be easier for you to just read the wikipedia article.