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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 8:15 pm (This post was last modified: January 3, 2014 at 8:17 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 3, 2014 at 7:08 pm)LostLocke Wrote: A sine wave is an inherent shape, like a cube or a sphere.

In the above situation, humans ceasing to exist, PI and the golden ratio will also cease to exist.
No, they won't, because they are expressed in the way things relate to each other. The symbols for them will no longer exist, but the relationships which they represent will remain. Those are the real numbers-- not the symbols, but the relationships which they represent. And those numbers are more perfect and real than the things which we observe to so crudely represent them in space and time.

Unless, that is, you believe the existence of anything depends on a mind capable of experiencing it. But that's probably a different discussion.
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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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