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What counter? You're saying a counter exists before people start counting? Is this a form of mathematical Platonism?

• lupire 4y ago
  What does your stopwatch say right now? Your pedometer? Your traffic clicker?
  • goatlover 4y ago
    Those are devices, not the spoken language.
    • kazinator 4y ago
      So if the counter doesn't speak, there is no counting?
• kazinator 4y ago
  A counter can be lazily instantiated just before the first item is counted.