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only if they're spoken or written. You can understand basic addition without writing or verbalisation.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: TerminalVelocity
You insist that we have to have language to have numbers.
You said that numbers are a language.
Recognition. If there are 4 fingers do you count them or just recognise them as being 4?
How can you understand that language without oh I don't know.... words?
1 stick on the ground is still one, yet we don't need to write or say it for it to be true.
1 is a word. One.
Becauee 1 is what we use to describe the amount of whatevers.
How can I possibly understand the number 1 without the word 1?
Yes you can. 1 stick is still 1 stick wether or not it is stated.
They are intrinsic it is undeniable they go hand and hand. You cannot have one without the other.
The word isn't math. The word is a description that we have allocated (in many different languages) to describe what 1 is.
The word itself is math it is a shape it is geometry, our mind works on geometry on words on math.
Facts.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: TerryDon79
What is four?
Math is a language into itself, and it's universal language as far as the universe is concerned.
1 is an expression. Not a word.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Every number has a form, when you count something your using words to count not numbers, numbers are words.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: Phage
You cannot have numbers without form.
It's impossible.
originally posted by: onequestion
a reply to: TerryDon79
This has nothing to do with the observer. That's an entirely separate thread.