08/09/2025

Some anthropologists who are extreme cultural relativists have argued that the laws of science as well as all the theorems of mathematics have no reality apart from human cultures. Laws about gravity, and the fact that 2 + 3 = 5, are not truths that transcend human minds. They are aspects of a culture’s folkways, like its traffic laws or its rules of etiquette.

— Martin Gardner, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener