**Links to**: [[Intentionality]], [[Attention]], [[Sense]], [[Drive]], [[Desire]], [[Inclination]]; [[10 Bias, or Falling into Place]], [[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]], [[Meat puppet]], [[Filter]], [[Principle of Sufficient Reason]], [[Aim-oriented]], [[Orientation]], [[Vector]], [[Politics]], [[Class interest]].   >The great mathematician fully, almost ruthlessly, exploits the domain of permissible reasoning and skirts the impermissible. ... The principal point which will have to be recalled later is that the mathematician could formulate only a handful of interesting theorems without defining concepts beyond those contained in the axioms and that the concepts outside those contained in the axioms are defined with a view of permitting ingenious logical operations which appeal to our aesthetic sense both as operations and also in their results of great generality and simplicity. >{_M. Polanyi, in his Personal Knowledge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), says: “All these difficulties are but consequences of our refusal to see that mathematics cannot be defined without acknowledging its most obvious feature: namely, that it is interesting”_ (p. 188)}. >Eugene Wigner, infamous “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” essay, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 13, No. I (February 1960). New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright © 1960 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. See: [[06 Principle of Sufficient Interest]]. G. C. Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, 1988, p. 68: ![[Interest, spivak subaltern.png]]