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20 Nov 2012, 1:46 pm

imagine each thing was numbered. each sub thing. each discussion and its sub terms related to that discussion.

it could have been really cool. it could have made explaining sophisticated things easier and who know what else could have rise from numbering.

let's call my feelings about this thread 1 and my feelings about wrongplanet 2 and your fight for the 1 and 2 numbers (everybody wants these numbers) 3.

try to number something too



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20 Nov 2012, 1:47 pm

ronpl wrote:
imagine each thing was numbered. each sub thing. each discussion and its sub terms related to that discussion.

it could have been really cool. it could have made explaining sophisticated things easier and who know what else could have rise from numbering.

let's call my feelings about this thread 1 and my feelings about wrongplanet 2

try to number something too


Is the thing that numbers the thing numbered also? Is the thing that numbers the thing that numbers everything numbered too.

And so on.

I think there is a contradiction here.

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20 Nov 2012, 1:52 pm

ruveyn wrote:
ronpl wrote:
imagine each thing was numbered. each sub thing. each discussion and its sub terms related to that discussion.

it could have been really cool. it could have made explaining sophisticated things easier and who know what else could have rise from numbering.

let's call my feelings about this thread 1 and my feelings about wrongplanet 2

try to number something too


Is the thing that numbers the thing numbered also? Is the thing that numbers the thing that numbers everything numbered too.

And so on.

I think there is a contradiction here.

ruveyn


we have plenty of numbers.
at least as dead bodies over here in israel and palastine.



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20 Nov 2012, 4:22 pm

Remember Archimedes and his Sand Reckoner. In counting the grains of sand, Archimedes never came to think about the number zero, which Galileo Galilei never forgave him.



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20 Nov 2012, 4:33 pm

Krabo wrote:
Remember Archimedes and his Sand Reckoner. In counting the grains of sand, Archimedes never came to think about the number zero, which Galileo Galilei never forgave him.


The omission is understandable (if not forgivable). When we number, we number -something-. Zero corresponds to nothing in the context of enumeration.

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21 Nov 2012, 2:09 pm

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