Re: Emily Burke "What Is Real/True ?"

Throughout your blog entry you stated that you preferred Math and Science to English because English and History are products of humanity, which is flawed. However Math and Science were discovered, but they were not always there. In general I do completely agree with you on the subjects of Science and Math are not flawed because they were not created by human beings but they were discovered. However when it comes to Math, can this subject be flawed because who really did invent the numbers system and all of these complex equations? Honestly when analyzing the subject (Math)how do you know that someone or multiple people just invented the mathmatical system like in the cases of history and english. Many of the applications do make quite a bit of sense but is the subject "organic", demonstated in the "Hard Sciences" (Physics, Chemistry, Biology etc.)? Truly the equations were "man made" but the logic behind the subject is more or less organic, in which humans did not create science but instead discovered it. For instance as Dr. Johnson stated the past week during class, fire did not exist but it was more of the idea and theory. In general a homosapian discovered that combining flint and tinder makes a fire complete and there is some type of scientific process happening, chemically.

However I agree with you completely that English and History are completely "man made: and thus flawed. When I personally examine the subject of history,how does the existence of these events actually happened. For example with the Adams presidents do possess some type of existence due that their bodies are buried in the heart of Quincy center and there are numerous historical markings that also do prove their existence. But on the other hand with some early historical events, such as the events in Greece and in Rome, how do we as humans know that there was such of an existence? Truly there are artifacts that would prove that these events were real but were these artifacts replicated by humans during the 17th, 18th, 19th,20th, or 21st century.Perhaps these events were false but how can this theory be proved? Generally it cannot and if not proven to be true are all of these events being false? Transitioning to the subject of English there is no arguing against this because humans did create language in the form of English. This subject is completely flawed and how do we know that with the rules of English portrays the correct form of the language?