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1. zzo38computer ◴[] No.44373301[source]
Principia Discordia says some things about chaos and order. Below are some quotations (which do not appear immediately next to each other in the original text, but are within one section of the original text):

> Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction making.

> We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

> The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

The mathematical ideas described in the article are interesting and mathematicians might be able to try to figure out these things, but it is only about ZFC and the variants with the additional axioms, not about "all of mathematics" (for one thing, there are other kind of set theory too; but there are other things too), which cannot be answered.