It seems like you want to use “true” to mean “true and useful”, but I don’t think that this agrees with what most people mean by “true”.
You’re right, of course. To a large extent my comment sprung from a dislike of the idea that mathematics possesses some special ontological status independent of its relevance to our world—your point that even those statements which are parochial can be translated into terms comprehensible in a language fitted to a different sort of universe pretty much refutes that concern of mine.
You’re right, of course. To a large extent my comment sprung from a dislike of the idea that mathematics possesses some special ontological status independent of its relevance to our world—your point that even those statements which are parochial can be translated into terms comprehensible in a language fitted to a different sort of universe pretty much refutes that concern of mine.