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by mejutoco 28 days ago
It is the old discovery vs invention in mathematics.

Or of you prefer philosophy: Parmenides (nothing changes) vs Heraclitus (you cannot bath twice in the same river aka everything changes all the time).

Postmodernism also claimed that everything has been done already. IMO these 2 are points of view that one can adopt, not truths based on fact. So the distinction is a matter of taste or perspective, not of truth, IMO.