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by goatlover 1390 days ago
What counter? You're saying a counter exists before people start counting? Is this a form of mathematical Platonism?
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kazinator 1390 days ago
A counter can be lazily instantiated just before the first item is counted.
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lupire 1390 days ago
What does your stopwatch say right now?

Your pedometer?

Your traffic clicker?

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goatlover 1390 days ago
Those are devices, not the spoken language.
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kazinator 1389 days ago
So if the counter doesn't speak, there is no counting?
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