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Full Idea
My knowing what the number '33' denotes cannot consist in my knowing that it denotes the number of decimal numbers between '1' and '33', because I would know that even if it were in hexadecimal (which I don't know well).
Gist of Idea
The meaning of a number isn't just the numerals leading up to it
Source
Richard G. Heck (Cardinality, Counting and Equinumerosity [2000], 5)
Book Ref
-: 'Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic' [-], p.200
A Reaction
Obviously you wouldn't understand '33' if you didn't understand what '33 things' meant.