Convinced myself that "1" is a fake idea (an abstraction) again
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There are no indivisible, observable objects. Considering only the natural numbers, one is indivisible. And therefore fake.
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That's fake. Useful, succinct, beautiful, but a complete construct. We are real and pizza is real.
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My definition of “reality” is: the thing that sometimes falsifies my hypotheses. Math “kicks back” theopensociety.net/2013/09/realit
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It’s possible to axiomatically define the natural numbers (zero is the empty set, one is {0} etc.)
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But that leads to incompleteness problems. Half-decent intro here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theor