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Pythagoras' Law? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 months ago by wrig9547@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Pythagoras’ famous theory - which has long been proven and should be made into mathematical law - will never be, because the therm ‘Pythagorean Theorem’ sounds so pleasing.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 1 points 3 months ago

I think this is straight forward. In our everyday life laws aren't derived from something else either. They just are. And OP seemed to have a hierarchical view of them as well. They were just under the assumption that a theorem could be "promoted".

I guess a real-life analogy would be a judge making a ruling under some laws. That would make a precedent in many countries but not a law. If then a new law were passed it could invalidate that precedent similar to someone disproving a theorem.