(January 20, 2015 at 6:45 pm)Darkstar Wrote: I found this interesting video on the subject that explains this better than I can:
Thanks for the video. I found it interesting and entertaining. I do agree that numbers are descriptions. Numbers refer to something other than themselves.
Where I disagree is the claim that they are made up. They are not made up descriptions but rather absolute descriptions. An alien might use a different "word" for two, but what ever "word" it uses is going to mean exactly the same thing as we mean when we say "two". The notion of a reality without quantities is nonsensical.