The reason is so simple, it is often ignored: IT FEELS GOOD! Well, until it doesnât â more on that later. Regardless of the Type of addiction (Substance, Process, Systemic or Codependency), certain chemicals get stimulated and released in the brain. These chemicals are what make us feel good and feed the addiction.
Haskell Curry defined mathematics simply as the science of formal systems. A formal system is a set of symbols, or tokens, and some rules telling how the tokens may be combined into formulas. In formal systems, the word axiom has a special meaning, different from the ordinary meaning of a self-evident truth.
My formal (but open to improvement) definition of 'science': A science is a method, a set of rules using fact and logic, for evidence gathering and testing truth claims in a given field of inquiry, rules which are publicly usable (i.e., neutrally applied to all participants), and which can reasonably be said to lead to the truth of that particular area.