I think it’s at least arguable that there are plenty of cardinals in the real world (e.g., three) even though there very likely aren’t the “large cardinals” that set theorists like to speculate about.
I (1) was genuinely unsure whether you were asserting that numbers (even small positive integers) are too abstract to “live” in the real world—a reasonable assertion, I think, though I thought it probably wasn’t your position—and (2) thought it was amusing even if you weren’t.
I think it’s at least arguable that there are plenty of cardinals in the real world (e.g., three) even though there very likely aren’t the “large cardinals” that set theorists like to speculate about.
(Of course there are also cardinals and cardinals.)
What was the point of writing that? Do you think I was talking about “3”?
I (1) was genuinely unsure whether you were asserting that numbers (even small positive integers) are too abstract to “live” in the real world—a reasonable assertion, I think, though I thought it probably wasn’t your position—and (2) thought it was amusing even if you weren’t.