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Are numbers real? Why or why not?

Are numbers real? Why or why not?

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If you think of REAL in terms of what can be observed, touched, or measured, then numbers (all kinds of numbers) are clearly not real as they don’t phyiscally exist anywhere.

Numbers are concepts, they are our tools that helps to understand useful things about the world. It gives an object a definite value. They are emensely useful tools and versatile enough that we have each and every reason to believe that they can be used to describe any pattern or equation that we can understand regardless of whether that pattern is ever realized in this mortal world.

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