(September 29, 2011 at 7:50 pm)Rhythm Wrote: ........Sigh. 1 coin, in any language, can be represented by holding up a single coin. When you put any two "one coins" together, you have 2 coins, in any language. This is why numbers are not subjective in the same way that spoken languages are subjective. The word for 1 could translate into parrot in one language and ardvark in another, but by using 1, this barrier of subjectivity is eliminated. I tried to explain exactly this to you. The conceptual abstraction of numbers is an appeal to authority. The thing that they represent is not.
Yes, but when we take thoughts from our mind, and bring them to the real world, it will get messy. You cannot assemble 4 rocks, without bits of them dissolving into rock dust. Try counting 4 rocks of sandstone sometime.
Even 4 diamonds will break into what becomes more than 4. Not at all times of course, but regularly enough. I know, having set diamonds how they shatter.
Physics is where they try to put the inner perfection of numbers in a theory to match the real world. Progress has been made, but no perfect match.
As a side note, do you believe in infinity, a concept, not a number?
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
