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Originally Posted by PassatAmnesiac  But how then do we make the assumption that something that would seem to be purely metaphysical can have human concepts like numbers applied to it. |
What you say there is a complete absurdity. If what is metaphysical, as you say, is not measurable, and escapes from human experience in the physical realm, then it only has a conceptual existence. It is a sensation, a feeling, an idea, an instinct... Always belongs to the mind. And to anything that belongs to the mind, we can apply any other thing that belongs to the mind (for they all belong to the mind). Therefor,e to the concept of 'love', the the metaphysical existence of love, we can apply the concept of number, for number is also a concept that belongs to the mind and no the world.