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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

17258	If we just say one, one, one, one, we don't know where we have got to [Hobbes]
	Full Idea: By saying one, one, one, one, and so forward, we know not what number we are at beyond two or three.
	From: Thomas Hobbes (De Corpore (Elements, First Section) [1655], 2.12.05)
	A reaction: This makes ordinals sound like meta-numbers.