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Rob Grainger18-Dec-13 7:00
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Rob Grainger18-Dec-13 4:20
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Actually, most people would consider that numbers are as real as most human concepts, if not more so due to their universal applicability.

By your logic trees don't exist because "tree" is purely a label we've conjuured up to describe the commonality of all trees. Colours do not exist because "colour" is a word we use to describe colours of all objects. So if anything exists then numbers are as real as anything else - just because they have no physical form does not render then nonexistant. If you reject naming things, then you reject language and symbolic systems as a means of communicating. Good luck with that.

I'd suggest Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations for a more thorough consideration of this area.

More interesting questions he tackles are of the form "what is a game" - now that really is hard to tie down.
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