In Mathematics
- Generic filter, a mathematical filter that satisfies specific properties
- Generic point, a special kind of point whose behavior reflects the behavior of a closed subset of an algebraic variety or scheme
- Generic property, a formal definition of a property shared by almost all objects of a certain type
- GENERIC formalism, a mathematical framework to describe irreversible phenomena in thermodynamics
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“Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable because we don’t happen to have all the data. In mathematics we have all the data ... and yet we don’t understand. We always come back to the contemplation of our human wretchedness. What force is in relation to our will, the impenetrable opacity of mathematics is in relation to our intelligence.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)