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This doesn't seem directly relevant to the meditation. Are you saying that, yes, it is an assumption, because it's an argument from definition? Because I guess that would be responsive, but the more interesting question is whether or not those definitions of 2, 4, +, and = can be known to correspond to the external world through more than just our assumptions.