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

20361	We need 'unities' for reckoning, but that does not mean they exist [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: We need 'unities' in order to be able to reckon: that does not mean we must suppose that such unities exist.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (The Will to Power (notebooks) [1888], §635)
	A reaction: True. I takes this thought to be important in the Psychology of Metaphysics (an unfashionable branch).