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by skh 2677 days ago
All of mathematics is built on sand in the sense that there necessarily are going to be undefined terms. There’s no way around this. Think about the English language. Grab a dictionary. Look up any word in it. Look at the definition of that word. Pick a word in that definition. Repeat and eventually you’ll end up with a defintition that contains one of the words you previously looked up. So English is built on sand too and yet we are able to still communicate.