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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Well, you can naturally have zero of something. In fact, you have zero of most things right now.

[–] AnUnusualRelic 45 points 6 months ago

How do you know so much about my life?

[–] aeronmelon 23 points 6 months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But there are an infinite number of things that you don't have any of, so if you count them all together the number is actually not zero (because zero times infinity is undefined).

[–] roguetrick 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a limit to the number of things unless you're counting spatial positioning as a characteristic of things and there is not a limit to that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

there's no limit to the things you don't have, because that includes all of the things that don't exist.

[–] roguetrick 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Only if you're able to define things that don't exist by infinities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I am.

[–] whotookkarl 2 points 6 months ago

How do I have anything if I have nothing of something?

[–] Almrond 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have seen arguments for zero being countable because of some transitive property with not counting still being an option in an arbitrary set of numbers you have the ability to count to intuitively.