[tacticalogic]

At the moment, concepts. Maybe not even that. Just objects, items. Something described in a scientific way.

It strikes me as something of a paradox, then. "Order" exists only through scientific description, yet what we call "science" seems to have the concept of order at it's very foundation.

[RightWhale]

Order in math means several different things depending on the type of equation. Generally, it is the value of a number, a quantity as in differential equation of order 1, order 2. Or order gives rise to numbers. In a mathematical set it is a specific sequence where you then have a first element, a second element, an nth element. Order in society isn't a number at all.