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"Making up your own rules" is literally what mathematics is, though. Using that as a counterargument to using a specific set of axioms tells me you don't understand mathematics.


But adopting a rule that says 1/0 = 0 means you may also have to accept that 1 = 0*0.


>”Making up your own rules" is literally what mathematics is, though.

We don’t make up arbitrary rules, though. Well…so-called mathematicians who study systems with completely arbitrary rules are just jerking off. The rules that most mathematicians use are based on our intuitions about what can’t be proven but “has to be” true.




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