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Posted by Nathan Hays on September 26, 2003 20:49:58 UTC

I was browsing the archives and ran across someone saying that unless a number be conceived, it does not exist. (I think it was Paul) This was used as rationale for a non-continuous universe theory.

This seems to me to be an unwarranted anthropic bias that begs me to ask about unseen falling trees.

If you accept the representation of the number three in language as sufficient for its existence, why not an extended representation that involves an algorithm? How about one as simple as a 'dozen', requiring one to count elements before ascribing 'dozen-ness' as a quality of a set? Does the set not have a dozen elements until it is counted?

- Nate

Follow Ups:

Probably Another One Of My "Isms" - pmartin - September 27, 2003 - 00:48 UTC
- Neolisms - sfnative - September 29, 2003 - 18:51 UTC
  - Zenophobia -- That's a Good One!! - pmartin - September 29, 2003 - 21:37 UTC
    - ZeNeo, The Frozen Matrix - sfnative - September 29, 2003 - 22:26 UTC

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