On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 4:13 PM Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 12/8/2018 11:02 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 4:04 AM Philip Thrift <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> What is more primary than numbers? >> >> 1. Numbers come from counting. >> > > Numbers come from relationships upon which objective statements can be > made (with or without objects to count). > For example, I can make and prove a statement about a number with a > million digits. Despite that there are not that many things (in my > vicinity) to count. > > > But only by abstracting from and generalizing some rules based counting > and then postulating that they apply to arbitrarily large numbers of > things. For example, arithmetic assumes that you can add 1 to 10^1000 and > get a different number. But that is purely an assumption. Counting could > never confirm it. > So then we agree that numbers don't inherit their existence or properties from from counting. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
