"What about the science of mathematics Master?"
"I did not know you'd promoted mathematics to a science. Mathematics is a system of rules for Order, and that's 'inside' Mind. It all depends on names and definitions, of course, but really, mathematics is only developed by man himself, it therefore IS not in Reality itself, can hardly be studied other than as 'man-made' tool. Indeed, only a tool, just like a wrench or screwdriver, or, an ideational tool only, like 'red' or 'large'. Lin Yutang says it admirably: 'Mathematics is a tool of the human Mind and a way of expressing what the Mind can see and reason about physical phenomena, and nothing more'. Well-spoken, yet, he then goes on with 'mathematical knowledge' and 'intuitive knowledge', and that, you'd better forget. It is confusion. It shows that he cannot clearly distinguish the idea of A and A itself. Mind-scientifically, the two have nothing in common, not even 'Structure/Ordening'. Again, it all comes down to a strict recognition of-, and distinction in-, : Physics/NON-Physics, in Outside Mind and Inside Mind. Needless to say that Lin Yutang arrives at some god or other, BECAUSE our world appears to be so well-Ordened, while ideationally, it is WE that Orden. It is a piece of throwing good ideas after bad-uns. Certainly, one can study a tool in order to improve it, but can one study it in order to see whatsit, what is behind it?"