"Adjectival" in function. That means that a number always "modifies," (if we use the language of grammar) a noun. In the phrase, "two sheep," or "two water towers" for example, you have adjective plus noun, in both cases. Mathematically, that might be "2X." But "2X" is a mathematical symbol set, not a linguistic utterance.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 12:31 pm"Adjectival" but not language-oriented?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 11:04 pmNot a Platonist. I think numbers have an adjectival relation to the empirical world, not that they are fixtures of some realm of ideal forms.Terrapin Station wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 10:38 pm Just out of curiosity are you a realist and/or platonist on mathematics?
I'm sure this is frightfully obvious to you. So let's save ourselves some boring time, and jump ahead to the point you want to make.