McGentrix wrote:Nothing existed long before zero. Someone merely identified and defined a concept that meant nothing. You can't invent the absence of something, you can only define it. same with one. Cavemen could identify a single thing from multiple things. They even had 10 fingers and 10 toes.
Go tell a physicist about the existence of nothing. The absence of something is a pretty abstract idea.
Anyway, I still maintain that we invented numbers. There were things around to count, yes, but you had to invent a method of counting them to keep track. Was language invented or discovered? Was logic invented or discovered?
(Okay, you can make the neurological argument that our brains contain operators for numbers, music, and language, and that we therefore are hardwired to use them, which would constitute a discovery of sorts...)
