[lbo-talk] Review of Badiou's Number and Numbers

[Jeffrey Fisher]

btw, was this one ever posted to this list? i kept thinking of it in the
badiou thread, but never got around to tracking it down until i found myself
on xkcd today.

http://xkcd.com/435/

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:42 PM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Chuck Grimes
>
> . I was presenting a sketch of how I conceive the idea that math is
> ontology.
>
> ^^^^^
>
> CB:  Seems believable that objective reality has both quantity and
> quality. A certain way of thinking holds that they transform into each
> other.
>
> There's bigger and smaller, and there's number.
>
> I have a hypothesis on "number" originating in commodity exchange,
> i.e. trade. There are well known ethographic facts on pre-trade
> cultures only counting to 5 or so, i.e. not having numbers,
> arithmetic.
>
> Does "math is ontology" mean reality only has quantity ?
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