[tacticalogic]

Just a question tacticalogic: In what sense do you mean that mathematics is "artificial?" In the sense that it is the creation of an Artificer? Or did you mean something else?

Perhaps "abstract" as opposed to "concrete" would have been a better choice of words. Mathematics is an abstraction. It is used to represent properties of real objects and forces, but it is not "real" in and of itself.

[betty boop]

Mathematics is an abstraction. It is used to represent properties of real objects and forces, but it is not "real" in and of itself.

Then does this mean that the very basis of quantification is a fiction? Were that true, then how/why could we ever depend on it to give us useful, reliable measurements?