Did you read my reply? Again, the ways to express numbers can be different, but the numbers themselves can not. Aliens in a different universe may use a different way to denote the number 3, but no matter how they denote it, it is not between 1 and 2.
Pardon? We already have multiple different ways to express numbers, they are completely arbitrary.
Which facts do you speak of?
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I did, you clearly haven’t read mine. Your comment has nothing to do with their post, it’s not about objects it’s about the arbitrary distinction we’ve applied to them.
alehc@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
It could, like we call the number two 10 in binary, or 1+1 or II or whatever. Numbers can have any symbol associated to it, but the abstract object they refer to is the same.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The thoughts not about objects though, so I really don’t see why that matters here?