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Quote by: Praxius ...counting numbers does nothing more different then learning from history and those who have lived through that said history. |
Mathematics is a logical process carried out on data, yielding inferences and conclusions. It is not just number work, it can also be involved paradigm work, especially in statistics. It is infact a way to learn from the people who: "...lived through that said history", using statistical analysis.
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Quote by: Praxius Listening to the experience of these people, listening to the emotions in which come about from these past experiences, and learning how these actions and experiences have affected humanity of the time, beats trying to lean how to think by trying to figure out the square root of some number in an exercise of something you will most likely never encounter through your life unless you're a rocket scientist or something.... |
Over generalisation fallacy. Just because it beats working out a square root doesnt mean it beats maths as a whole. Mathematics has much more to it, statistical regression modelling can be used to analyse the past along with scientific age dating, and this unfortunatly for you does use square roots. The thing about maths is it does get applied, and it is all around us. While empathy is worth its salt in interpreting and learning from the past, so is calculation.
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Quote by: Praxius ...and I don't believe the average human is employed in that field. |
Which is introducing irrelevant material into the argument, the average mans actions have no bearing on mathematic's analytical and logical qualities, nor on what constitutes good critical reasoning.