(September 13, 2018 at 8:02 pm)polymath257 Wrote: Let me put it this way. If everyone agrees what it is to be the number 4, what is it, precisely?
You seem to be talking about the nature of language here. If everyone agrees what a tree is, then what is it? It would seem ridiculous to say that trees don’t exist that they are subjective, because we agree to call them trees.
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