RE: William Lane Craig denies the number zero.
October 23, 2016 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2016 at 4:44 pm by Arkilogue.)
(October 23, 2016 at 7:42 am)robvalue Wrote: There are no numbers at all. They are abstract concepts. So if you say "zero doesn't exist", I'd agree with you. It doesn't exist in the same way that physical objects exist anyway.
They are helpful in keeping track of and dividing quantities. Say I have 4 apples and I want to give 3 people an equal amount of apple, I'd give each person an apple and a third. But I didn't include myself so now I have no apple.
I could say I have zero apples but here is where zero becomes problematic. I have 0 apples in the same way I have 0 pumpkins, 0 purple elephants, 0 tickets to Mars and 0 post cards from Andromeda. There are probably multiple infinities of things that I have zero of.
If just said "I have zero..." You'd probably ask "Zero what?" and that would be an extremely long list.
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