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[quote=Anonymous]Mathematics is a field that requires that it be clear where each step comes from. So where does math start? It starts with sets, usually indicated by listing their elements between curly brackets, { ... }. Where to start -- the only possible place, the empty set {}, which has no elements. Since it has zero elements, it is used as the definition of 0. So what is 1 -- it is a set consisting of one element, the only available element, the empty set, 1 = {0} = {{}}. Then you can probably guess that 2 = {0, 1} = {{}, {{}}}, and from there on, each integer is defined to be the set consisting of all its predecessors. Thus are infinitely many integers developed, literally, from nothing. All it takes is the ability to distinguish between nothing and the set that contains nothing. So why do some of us think that the Original Cause should be incomparably great rather than a dimensionless Black Hole?[/quote]
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