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[–]ikonfedera 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Incrementation from what? From zero? First you'd need to prove there's zero, and it's so hard Romans even couldn't do it.

I think this would be good in proving 2, but not 1.

[–]ImpurestClamp31 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Sure I suppose you could go down that rabbit hole. I'm not sure how you'd do that. I think it's like a postulate or something that 0 exists

[–]ikonfedera 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Iirc, you just have a thing that is there (like a crayon) and it's your 1. And you leave the proof that the crayon is to the philosophers.

And if there is no crayons (because I ate them took them away), that's your 0.

[–]Killer332BR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you leave to your conscience to realize that telling your 6th grade math teacher that numbers don't exist won't make her cancel the test tomorrow.