Addendum to part III

[thales1940]

It has occurred to me that some of my assertions are open to question, especially as regards Thales and the Egyptian calendar. My point is not so much the question of who or when the idea of leap year was implimented, I know it probably came later. My emphasis is on the discovery of the cardinal nature of numbers as they relate to ordinals. We

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[pooperman]

(This is a response to this post that I'll post here instead of joining the community at the moment.)

Nice post--I wanted to explore your hand example a bit.

(Note that some of this is inspired by a chapter on topology in Ian Stewart's Flatterland, a book I cannot recommend enough to anybody for any reason

thanks

[thales1940]

I am also an absolutist, a non-mystical absolutist, which means my absolute is derived from experience.

I want to think about your post before I go further.

[pooperman]

[thales1940]

A magician takes a deck of cards and removes all the sevens. He then removes any 7 of the remaining cards. He lays both sets face down and bets the next sucker/passer-by that he can predict of the two stacks which will be "the sevens stack". The lie is in the use of the term "the" used to imply unity, and so, the idea is planted that of the two stacks, only one is described by "the sevens stack