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[Loricybin]

it seems to me that this is one of those "shades of grey in between"

almost a trick question, but a good question.

consider this. . .
if you have two apples and eat one, you have one apple left.
the mathematical structure for this being 2 - 1 = 1.

there were still two apples, and one was subtracted and placed in a whole new equation, but my point is this
without mathematics, wouldn't the outcome have been unchanged?
youd still have an apple in your hand and you still would've eaten one.

so wouldn't it be safe to assume that math itself is just a process of naming things in simpler terms?

because if math is simply names for things that exist, but not physically, then math must have existed all along, just not under the assumed identity of MATH.

so i believe math always existed, and we merely defined it into understandable terms