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Humans (& other life forms?) group similar things together to make sense of the world.
We have to assume the present & future will have continuity with the past to survive.
We are grouping similar, not identical, things together.

To do this we abstract from reality.
We have concepts of pure forms.
Since similar things can be similar in more than one way, there can be many descriptions of reality.
Does this mean there is no one truth.
Some descriptions are better than others though, i.e. there is more evidence.

Language attempts to communicate our thoughts (our groupings).
All languages are human inventions.

Is mathematics also a language?
Isn't logic a by-product of language?

Mathematics can be highly abstract & far from reality.
In economic models growth can be infinite.
Indeed, capitalism likely requires unending economic growth to continue.