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4918269 No.4918269[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

is numbers real? I'm very confused if stuf lyk 1 && 2 is actaully rel lyk fried chicken && watermelon is real. cud u eat a number?

>> No.4918289

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

>> No.4918294

Numbers are real in the same way that everything that is, is real, but they are not corporeal in any way, which is why math is considered philosophy instead of science.

>> No.4918302

So I guess to answer your question, numbers are not real in the same way that fried chicken or watermelon is real. And they can definitely not be eaten. They are mental constructs used to help us conceptualize relations.

>> No.4918304

>Numerology is any study of the purported divine, mystical or other special relationship between a count or measurement and observed or perceived events. It has many systems and traditions and beliefs. Numerology and numerological divination by systems such as isopsephy were popular among early mathematicians, such as Pythagoras, but are no longer considered part of mathematics and are regarded as pseudomathematics/pseudoscience by modern scientists.

>> No.4918306

is love real? is god real? is reality real?

aka do love/god/reality/numbers have any real essence?

No. Step away from platonistic thinking and move towards a anti-platonic thinking.

>> No.4918322

Is evolution real?

>> No.4918338

>>4918306
>Is love real?
Quite. We've even been able to partially explain it scientifically, but there is still much more that we don't know about the brain than we do.

>Is god real?
Probably not.

>Is reality real?
By definition, yes.

>Does love/god/reality/numbers have any real essence?
Love and reality do, numbers and our idea of god sort of do, god himself does not.

You're a philosophailure.

>> No.4918411

>>4918338
>>>/x/
you can take your fairy tale beliefs with you

>> No.4918435

how can u belive in numbers if their just a theory, a gueus????////

>> No.4918447

>>4918269
Cud u eat moon? Then moon is not real!

>> No.4918452

>>4918338
>You're a philosophailure.
Ripping good, kind sir.

>> No.4918499

>>4918447
The moon is real and made of cheese so it's obviously edible