For the number 23, I wonder there must at least 2 schools : ( … there are many … One can think that there is really a number 23! It was discovered and somehow

For the number 23, I wonder there must at least 2 schools : ( … there are many … One can think that there is really a number 23! It was discovered and somehow we human has accessed to it. I am not sure. Or one can think about it. This is the mapping of empty set to 0, set of empty set to 1, set of empty set of empty set to 2 … …) one can think of 23-ish item is a set with all 23 elements whose combination of any 2 elements does not reduce. You need a thousand page to prove 1 + 1 = 2, with the reason that the first 1 is not the same as the second 1 to avoid this operation collapse back to 1. Our counting always assume different object, but to be rigorous there is nothing in the first 1 is explicitly said in that equation is not the same as the second one, as pointed out by a previous Hn refer to latest article . … Or my beloved : there is no 23. Only 0 and an operation +1 exist. You can say 23 as the result of a marker after 23 +1 operation on 0. It is 0 +1 -> 1 … 1 +1 -> 0 +1 +1 -> 2, Qed. If you have 23 stones/… with you, you do a counting by doing a mapping to this 0 obj +1 ops in your head-compute somehow. …