Quentin Anciaux wrote:
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> But whatever you do with numbers can be encoding with numbers, as such
> assuming platonic existence, numbers are the only requirements, because
> operation on them, discourse about them, description on them are numbers too.
Hmm. You can hardly claim that the meaning is intrinsic to the number.
Does "2" mean "red", "mammal", "male" or what ? It could be mean
anything in a given coding scheme.
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Received on Mon Mar 13 2006 - 08:24:46 PST