there is no “17” object in a parsimonious predictive model of the world
without any explicit justification: perhaps it’s meant to be obvious? It’s not at all obvious to me. The simplest model of the world might very well have numbers (and sets and functions and manifolds and who knows what else) in it. Our current best models of the world certainly have those things in them.
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without any explicit justification: perhaps it’s meant to be obvious? It’s not at all obvious to me. The simplest model of the world might very well have numbers (and sets and functions and manifolds and who knows what else) in it. Our current best models of the world certainly have those things in them.