Jack comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong
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I think the system of natural numbers is pretty damn complex. But the system of natural numbers is an abstract object and Dawkins likely never meant for his argument to apply to abstract objects, thinks all abstract objects are constructed by intelligences or denies the existence of abstract objects.
I think there is a good chance all abstract objects are constructed and a better chance that the system of natural numbers was constructed (or at least the system, when construed as an object and not a structural analog, is constructed and not discovered. That is numbers are more like adjectives then nouns, adjectives aren't objects.)