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While this is true, most math [1] textbooks generally don't provide verbose treatments of controversial, unresolved, possibly untestable meta-problems [2], (where the validity of the conclusions crucially depend on previous controversial, unresolved, possibly untestable meta-problems.)
[1] String theory textbooks provide a possible anti-example.
[2] Metaphysics, metacognition, metaprogramming.
I can assure you that the maths in a string theory textbook will still be essentially correct.