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minus-square🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️cakelinkfedilinkEnglish-2•2 months agoTo the golf thing: “Is not playing a sport also a sport?” The basic premise of the poster’s comment was: “Is the absence of a thing, a thing in and of itself?”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 months agoThat was not the premise of the poster’s comment. 0 isn’t nothing, and “a thing” is a much broader category than “natural numbers”. Half an apple is also a thing.
To the golf thing:
“Is not playing a sport also a sport?”
The basic premise of the poster’s comment was:
“Is the absence of a thing, a thing in and of itself?”
That was not the premise of the poster’s comment.
0 isn’t nothing, and “a thing” is a much broader category than “natural numbers”.
Half an apple is also a thing.