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Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by Guthur on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:50AM (#33981069)
Zero is not even absence it would be absolutely nothing, irreducibly nothing.
Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by Guthur on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @02:54AM (#33981088)
Though a strange thought has occurred that existence of One implies Zero by it's lack of absence. But this feel incoherent because these two poles can never exist together.
Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by viciousvoxel on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:49AM (#33981362)
Counterexample: qubits
Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by benj111 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @10:09AM (#33984453)
I'm trying to parse this.

Do you mean zero implies one by its lack of absence?

Re:The Pirahã are off by one (2020) by Guthur on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @03:15PM (#33989719)
I feel the difficulty is that they can't exist together. But it was more a musing on my part, please forgive me that indulgence.

I'm wondering that if we were to consider a platonic view of forms through planes of physicality, idea and thought is it the case that all that exists across them is One?