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Ideas for Lord Kelvin (Wm Thomson), M.R. Ayers and Friedrich Nietzsche

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers

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Numbers enable us to manage the world - to the limits of counting [Nietzsche]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units

7207	Counting needs unities, but that doesn't mean they exist; we borrowed it from the concept of 'I' [Nietzsche]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / d. Counting via concepts

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Counting 'coin in this box' may have coin as the unit, with 'in this box' merely as the scope [Ayers]

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If counting needs a sortal, what of things which fall under two sortals? [Ayers]