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Do Numbers Exist?

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Do Numbers Exist?
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RE: Do Numbers Exist?
January 3, 2014 at 6:25 pm (This post was last modified: January 3, 2014 at 6:25 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 3, 2014 at 9:18 am)LostLocke Wrote: Numbers are just labels we give to quantity.

If we assume that-- Humans are the only animals on Earth with the capacity to grasp quantity (which I'm somewhat doubtful of) and-- Earth is the only planet in the whole universe that contains any sentient life (which I'm also doubtful of), then if humans cease to exist, numbers also cease to exist.

But relationships like PI, the sine wave, and the golden ratio will still be present.
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Do Numbers Exist?

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Do Numbers Exist? - by MindForgedManacle - January 3, 2014 at 2:15 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by houseofcantor - January 3, 2014 at 2:22 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by pocaracas - January 3, 2014 at 6:06 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by bennyboy - January 3, 2014 at 6:33 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by LostLocke - January 3, 2014 at 9:18 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by bennyboy - January 3, 2014 at 6:25 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by LostLocke - January 3, 2014 at 7:08 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by bennyboy - January 3, 2014 at 8:15 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by LostLocke - January 3, 2014 at 9:53 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by Polaris - January 3, 2014 at 9:54 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by bennyboy - January 4, 2014 at 4:47 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by Angrboda - January 4, 2014 at 5:03 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by MindForgedManacle - January 5, 2014 at 11:11 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by LostLocke - January 4, 2014 at 8:03 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by Angrboda - January 4, 2014 at 8:13 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by LostLocke - January 4, 2014 at 9:54 pm
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by Angrboda - January 6, 2014 at 2:10 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by MindForgedManacle - January 6, 2014 at 2:23 am
RE: Do Numbers Exist? - by houseofcantor - January 6, 2014 at 9:00 am

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