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Do numbers really exist or are they something man has created?

Man didnt create mathematics. He discovered them.

Stoic Teacher
2 min readApr 7, 2022
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* Numbers are eternal, man just gave them labels and wrote them down. One plus one would still equal two if their were no people. I, personally, believe numbers prove a creator because they are all over nature.

* We first need to ask, what is it that man has created?..

* Of course they don’t exist. We invited them to be able to capture and explain the world around us.

* Indeed, like languages they’re all artificial and are just labels.

* Man didnt create mathematics. He discovered them.

* Numbers are just symbols that are man-made but the idea behind the numbers exists which is universal.

* What’s this got to do…

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