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From: Volker Hetzer <hetzer.abg@sni.de>
Subject: Re: Off topic response to an off topic message--> was:Re: Software
 Engineering and Dreamers
Date: 1997/06/06
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Date: 1997-06-06T00:00:00+00:00
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Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> =

> In article <3395FF96.107E@ionaprep.pvt.k12.ny.us>,
> =A1Stephen! <99borns@ionaprep.pvt.k12.ny.us> wrote:
> >       One is a totally arbitrary name. It may be called "Throbene" fo=
r all it
> >matters, it is merely a way of expressing the number. The names for th=
e
> >numbers are a human invention, the numbers themselves are not.
Try to see it that way:
Without minds to think, there would be no numbers. Of course there would
still be one earth, but the abstcraction from the planet to the number 1
would
not be made. But that abstraction is what mathematics is about.
Therefore: No mind, no mathematics.

Volker