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11852649 No.11852649 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any units? If you take apples from a tree and put them together it's two, but are the singular apples really 1? You can always divide the apple into smaller pieces, until it's atoms, then protons and neutrons, then quarks, then something else... etc. And you can do the same to always make something bigger. Earth could be considered a unit, but you could always stack more earths to make it into a bigger unit infinitely? Is there a explanation for this?

>> No.11852682

Does this BTFO all of Mathematics?

>> No.11852800

I do not understand the question.

>> No.11852869

>>11852800
Is Mathematics just a human construct i.e doesn't exist outside humans? Is Maths just mysticism?

>> No.11852989

>>11852649
math, physics.... is just an abstract invention of humans by trying to understand with known things the unknown and set up rules that nearly describe the phenomen or problem

of course you can consider the world as a unit and stick planets together for bigger units, if so and humans,scientists accord you there exists a new unit, but it’s not real it’s still just a invention like everything else and it’s not a universal truth

>> No.11852994

>>11852649
Numbers are literally just symbols. Same for units. In elementary school, if you ask these questions, they put you in the dumbass corner of the class.

>> No.11853115

>>11852649
>If you take apples from a tree and put them together it's two, but are the singular apples really 1?
The concept of units is an abstraction. That example is one of many ways we understand and interact with the world.

>> No.11853392

>>11853115
This is what I wanted to know, so Mathematics is the same as Philosophy or something else like that. I just wanted to know is there something 'more' to Math?

>> No.11853402

>>11853392
There is nothing "more" to existence other than philosophy and math so I don't understand your question.

>> No.11853582

>>11853402
I mean does Math apply independent of humans, or is it totally a abstraction of the human reality?

>> No.11853596

>>11852869
If math wasn't real airplanes wouldn't fly and computers wouldn't work. There are gay theoretical areas of math that are pretty much memes, but obviously math is a tangible thing that can be applied to the physical world.