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In article <5nkvou$e8g$1...@unlisys.unlisys.net>, Wolfgang Schwanke
<wo...@berlin.snafu.de> writes
>I don't know what that is all about. Anyway:
>
>>    If mathematics is made up by humans, did the number of Earths
>>vary between 0 and infinity until the first neanderthal learned to
>>count to one?
>
>You just introduced a new concept "number" in that sentence.
>It's an abstract and made up concept which is part of that
>human invention called "maths". You used that concept to
>describe what was going on in the real world, similar to language.
>But that doesn't make that language the same as the real world.
>
>That didn't stop the physical stuff from doing the same stuff it
>always does ... but there was nobody thinking about it in any abstract
>concept such as "maths". That means, until "the first neanderthal
>learned to count" there were no numbers.

I fail to get your point. There was nothing saying that there were 17
trees in the forest before we learned to count but there were stil the-
concept-that-we-call-17 trees in the forest.
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