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I think the real means real numbers
by internetman55 9y ago
I think the real means real numbers
- MaxBarraclough 9y agoAnnoyingly they've also laid claim to 'proper' and 'normal'.
- gowld 9y agoYes, exactly. Real numbers aren't real.
- internetman55 9y agoIm not sure that real in the context of math means anything other than the real numbers or (at a stretch) existence. I agree with you. And no one talks about this but a priori i dont see why even the natural numbers have anything to do with reality either. "Counting" some objects seemingly would require a notion of the object and some way to determine whether each part of reality was or was not the object which already seems fairly abstract and removed from the world. I think certain parts of math just seem more intuitive to certain people