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View submission: Kit Fine on the nature of numbers
I don't think you should abstract **all** properties to include the 4 dimensions. You still have two objects, even if they are otherwise 100% identical, as long as they occupy different positions in space and/or time. If they don't occupy different places in space or time, then it's just one object. The same. Hence the notation of two circular units in the braces. One unit must come first, then the second. Their nature of first, then second (relating to time/space) is what gives them the "two" property.
Comment by Bitfroind at 22/01/2015 at 08:48 UTC
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Thanks for the clarification.
Comment by kufim at 27/01/2015 at 06:55 UTC
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You shouldn't need any stipulations regarding space or time, these are just where imagination tends to fail in trying to hunt down all the possible means of discriminating otherwise identical individuals.