Ontic Cafe Philosophy Short Shot #4 What are numbers? Part 1

This Ontic Cafe philosophy Short Shot is designed to give an immediate insight into the philosophy of mathematics, its ancient historical foundation, and it's contemporary problems and relevance.

The philosophy of mathematics is an enormous sub discipline in philosophy, and is one of the most interesting and unique fields of philosophical endeavour. Often the philosophy of mathematics involves an understanding of quite sophisticate mathematics, but in this Ontic Cafe Short Shot there is no mathematics.
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