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To: oblomov

It means that numbers obviously exist, whether someone (e.g., oblomov) believes it or not. :’)


45 posted on 12/14/2014 10:20:22 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: SunkenCiv

If humans invent something, it exists.

The question is, whether number (in the abstract, as we understand it) exists outside of human cognition.

The development of number systems reveals more about the cross-cultural similarity of human beings, than it does the underlying structure of physical reality.


56 posted on 12/14/2014 3:38:56 PM PST by oblomov
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