Question

Do numbers exist or dont?

Answer 1

yes they do

Answer 2

explanation? @yemenRIP

Answer 3

Do birds still fly?

Answer 4

We use numbers everyday.
Asking 1+1 is called using numbers.

Answer 5

LMAO what do you mean xD
do u want to see number living and moving in real life haha like birds do

Answer 6

yeah but to the exist in real life or dont? @pooja195

Answer 7

thats my question for hw....

Answer 8

Loooool xD

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

They do. You use numbers when counting cash

Answer 11

like physically exist @pooja195

Answer 12

According to your disposition, you might have an immediate gut reaction to this question. My initial reaction (oh so long ago) was: “Of course numbers don’t exist. You can’t pick up the number 3 and throw it through a window.” That is, my intuition was that the only things that exist are the kinds of things that can be physically manipulated, and numbers, by almost every account, just aren’t this kind of thing.o be clear about our terms, you can pick up numerals — that is, you can pick up concrete instances of numbers, like the plastic number signs at the gas station telling you how much gas costs, or the printed numerals in a book, denoting page numbers. But you don’t, by virtue of tearing out page three of a book and tossing it out a window, throw the number 3 out the window, any more than you throw me out of a window by drawing a picture of me and throwing that out the window.

Answer 13

Numbers, if they exist, are generally what philosophers call abstract objects, and those who maintain that such things exist claim that they exist outside of space and time. If you’re like me, you shake your head at such talk. “Outside of space and time? What does that even mean? Gibberish!” If you are similarly disposed, you might be a nominalist (in case you’re accumulating self-descriptive philosophical terms), and you are part of a long, proud philosophical tradition that thinks that existence is the exclusive domain of the physical.
However, your nominalism begins to run into problems pretty quickly. Never mind numbers. What about things like, say, novels? What exactly is the novel The Catcher in the Rye? It’s not any of the particular instantiations of it — it’s not the copy on your bookshelf; it’s not the copy on mine. All of the print copies on the planet could be eradicated and still the novel could be able to be said to exist. Is the novel the original manuscript sitting in a safe somewhere? But that could be burned and you could still argue that the novel exists. But if the novel itself is not identified with any of its particular instantiations, then the nominalist is in a bit of a quandary. On this perspective, the copies of the novel are instantiations of the novel itself, and the novel itself is seeming to be something abstract — something non-physical.

Answer 14

.-. numbers are no living creatures

Answer 15

*not

Answer 16

So the idea of something somehow existing outside space and time is suddenly not as absurd as it may have seemed. What about numbers, then? Of course there are disanalogies between numbers and novels. Novels are invented by humans, while, on most views of the subject, numbers exist whether or not humans ever happened to discover them. But, putting such differences aside for the moment, perhaps the existence of novels as abstract objects gives us some traction to say that numbers exist as abstract objects.

Answer 17

no they don't physically exist
numbers are just like hypothetical concept used to support math and science.

Answer 18

@yemenRIP thanx...that explained a lot...ill take it as an answer, better then @pooja195 :)

Answer 19

Personally, I believe that quantities do exist (1 apple). However, I do not simply believe that numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) exist; they are simply tools we use to measure quantity. I once had a question like this about time...and boy that's a tough one.

Answer 20

particly they only exist in your mind and devices

Answer 21

I'm sorry if you thought I was being rude. I did not intend to be rude.

Answer 22

no its okay pooja i forgive you (: