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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by lisper on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:31PM (#27284655)
> What is five-ness really?

It is everything that has some relation to something that has that same relation to something that has that same relation to something that has that same relation to something that has that same relation to some unique thing that does NOT have that same relation to anything.

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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by function_seven on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:13AM (#27286239)
Is this the spoken form of a Church Numeral or something?
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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by lisper on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @12:30AM (#27286360)
Yes. Exactly. (You could also see it as a rendering of some of the Peano axioms.)
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Re:How inevitable is the concept of numbers? by BBC-vs-neolibs on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @02:50AM (#27287227)
Username checks out. :)
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