Isn’t the simple way to deal with most of these issues is to treat math as another language that let’s us communicate about the world? There isn’t really a “two” by itself out there, two is more of an adjective describing the number of objects [or position, or whatever]. This is akin to how we say that there’s nothing that’s inherently a tree, but there are objects we call trees so we all know what object we’re talking about.
If I’m missing the mark, or this leads to some silly conclusion, someone please correct me.
Isn’t the simple way to deal with most of these issues is to treat math as another language that let’s us communicate about the world? There isn’t really a “two” by itself out there, two is more of an adjective describing the number of objects [or position, or whatever]. This is akin to how we say that there’s nothing that’s inherently a tree, but there are objects we call trees so we all know what object we’re talking about.
If I’m missing the mark, or this leads to some silly conclusion, someone please correct me.