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For this I made a tlv format, where string is encoded in byte prefixed chunks with length between 0 and 222 for final chunk and between 223 and 255 for intermediate chunks.

It works because humans looked for a method that works, they tried different methods and chose one that works best, actually it gradually evolved over time.

Pure reason is conjecture with little empirical input (and big intuitive or memey input) and little verification of output, i.e. a large deviation from empiricism.

Isn't it obvious that scientific method is fallible? It's just statistically better than pure reason, which should be possible to demonstrate statistically. It's a product of trial and error, and there were many errors, I don't think there's much metaphysics there.

It's a gap between physics and mathematics. Undecidable statements exist mathematically, but don't exist physically: mathematics and physics have different concepts of existence. Ironically, even mathematical universe hypothesis deliberately limits mathematics-as-physics to specifically resemble physics of a spontaneous material world, and this limitation is just an axiom.