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October 8, 2021 at 10:47 pm #187814
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October 8, 2021 at 10:53 pm #187815
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Guestread plato and kant
number is a characteristic of the property of an idea when several distinct intelligible elements are thought as one under a law of the category of understanding, and the mind reflects upon this in another moment -
October 8, 2021 at 10:56 pm #187816
Anonymous
Guestelement of set of numbers
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October 9, 2021 at 10:54 pm #187860
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GuestSpbp
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October 8, 2021 at 10:57 pm #187817
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GuestAny ring has an isomorphism to a set of numbers. The class of all numbers is the union of these sets.
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October 8, 2021 at 10:58 pm #187818
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GuestAbout tree fiddy
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October 8, 2021 at 11:03 pm #187819
Anonymous
GuestIn and of itself? Nothing. A placeholder of sorts to help describe certain relationships without tying them to concrete objects.
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October 8, 2021 at 11:20 pm #187820
Anonymous
GuestThe units of measurement of quantity.
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October 9, 2021 at 12:01 am #187822
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GuestCorrect
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October 9, 2021 at 12:19 am #187823
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Guestwhat is quantity?
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October 9, 2021 at 12:22 am #187824
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GuestIf I have two apples, and you give me one more apple, then I have three apples. Quantity tells us how many or how much of something we have.
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October 9, 2021 at 2:13 am #187825
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GuestWhat is quantity?
Baby don’t hurt me.
Don’t hurt me.
No more.
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October 8, 2021 at 11:58 pm #187821
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GuestNumbers is something our brains made up a long with many other things like sound and time to cope with the universe being completely devoid of reason and logic.
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October 9, 2021 at 8:42 am #187828
Anonymous
GuestAbstract tools to count, quantify, order and measure imaginary or physical objects
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October 9, 2021 at 9:00 am #187829
El Arcón
GuestA number is an element of an ordered set, or a partially ordered set.
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October 9, 2021 at 10:01 am #187832
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Guestincomplete answer
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October 9, 2021 at 9:44 am #187830
Anonymous
GuestA concept.
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October 9, 2021 at 9:55 am #187831
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Guesti could use a little help myself
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October 9, 2021 at 1:15 pm #187833
Anonymous
Guestnumbers are quantities or mathematical objects defined by a set of axioms. you have different kinds of numbers like integers, irrationals, complex, vectors, etc
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October 9, 2021 at 1:16 pm #187834
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Guesta stand-in for a real physical thing or a theoretical thing.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:19 pm #187835
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Guestso 1 can mean (1 apple) or it can mean 1 znorf(a znorf is a metaphysical fruit i want to genetically engineer into life).
2 means 2 znorfs or 2 apples or it can mean 1 znorf and 1 apple, depending on context applied.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:20 pm #187837
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Guestso a number is nothing more than a tool, and just like the word ‘gay’ is a descriptor of a state
the word 1 can stand for amount of gays in the room.
however, they are both concepts, and a concept is just a thought.
and a thought is just a tool.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:26 pm #187840
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Guestit doesnt have any inherent existance beyond what it subjectively means to every person.
however, due to convention and learning(indoctrination), 1 will mean the same thing to "most people"…
so its not that its objective its just that it’s subjective reality is shared with enough people enabling conversation.
this is no different to the word ‘gay’.
however if you were to use the word ‘gay’ in the 1800s im sure it would actually mean ‘happy’ and not your sexual orientation.
this shows that a) homosexuals have no shame and even steal words standing for happiness from the wider population and b) the meaning of words change.
say some Harvard or MIT cunt tomorrows decides that the number 1 should really stand for what the number 2 now stands for and vice versa and the gnomish press publishizes this widely and use their agents in academia to push it into the curricula.
then suddenly the word 1 now means 2 for the greatest amounts of consciousnesses.
do you catch my drift?
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October 9, 2021 at 1:19 pm #187836
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GuestA number by itself is meaningless. What matters is a number system. Once you have a number system, you can talk about what the numbers in them are. 13 in Z/61Z is a number but it’s not the same kind of number as 13 in Z.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:25 pm #187838
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GuestIt’s the name for how many of something there are.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:26 pm #187839
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Guest>the label is the thing it refers to
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October 9, 2021 at 4:09 pm #187858
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GuestYes that’s what words are.
For example describe this: O
It’s a circle, because that’s the name for this thing: O.
Anything more descriptive than that is just a ruse, a lie, a deception. You have deceived yourself, you bigot. Wittgenstein was right. Lol.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:27 pm #187841
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October 9, 2021 at 1:33 pm #187842
Anonymous
Guestnumbers are just words. sure, they are widely agreed upon but in the end just symbols for the mind.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:34 pm #187843
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October 9, 2021 at 1:38 pm #187845
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Guesti never said that. read again.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:41 pm #187846
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Guest>i never said that
>numbers are just words
So are numbers just words, or are the words referencing numbers, just words?-
October 9, 2021 at 1:44 pm #187847
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Guestthey are both symbols… to the mind there is no difference to "two" and 2 beyond the immediate experiental content…
it is just due to convention we call "two" a word and "2" a number…
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October 9, 2021 at 1:52 pm #187849
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October 9, 2021 at 1:56 pm #187850
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Guesti suggest you read what i said again
the problem with language is that it is subjective which your example shows. lol.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:58 pm #187851
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GuestDoes "two"/"2" refer to something?
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October 9, 2021 at 2:12 pm #187852
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Guestnot in your head.
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October 9, 2021 at 2:13 pm #187853
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GuestOkay. So does "two"/"2" refer to something?
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October 9, 2021 at 2:15 pm #187854
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Guestwell you have to answer that. stop pestering me.
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October 9, 2021 at 2:17 pm #187855
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GuestDoes it refer to anything or not? Yes or no?
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October 9, 2021 at 4:03 pm #187856
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Guestit refers to two quantities. but that is only because of convention. its just a word. calm down.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:36 pm #187844
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Guesti suppose i should add that they are the most "objective" you could ever come to. but humans are not objective but subjective.
a supercomputer could in theory be objective if it knew everything about the universe and used everything to calculate anything but humans are fallible.
that is not to say a supercomputer such as this exists. it doesnt and probably never will. i suppose the garden gnomes made me make that comment.
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October 9, 2021 at 1:47 pm #187848
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GuestA thing to describe the relationship between things and other things.
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October 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm #187857
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GuestAn abstract object defined in the most basic sense through god.
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October 9, 2021 at 4:37 pm #187859
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GuestA gift from God.
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October 9, 2021 at 10:58 pm #187861
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GuestArbitrary symbols
1+1 doesn’t mean anything with no context -
October 10, 2021 at 12:01 am #187863
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