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I'm not talking about the numbers themselves; I'm talking about "The" prime numbers - i.e. that 13 and 17 are part of a group. The group...

@stephen h note that you marked this thread as "Graduate". If your answer to either of the questions I asked above is "no" (and I...

My distinction is: Discovered: it objectively existed as part of the world before humans came along. Does anyone want to hone that?

I'm not using the term "group" in the direct mathematical sense (becaue I think it would get too murky). I'm simply looking at any type...

Agree. Those are prime, and we see how it got that way. My point here is that nature does not have a "group" of primes that it picks...

Ergo: this is a philosophical question and is thus in GD.

Something that exists distinct from humans. A pack of hadrosaurs might be considered a natural group. Humans did not invent the...

The monster group isn't an object in our universe.

You just self-corrected. You could "choose any random axioms for your theory", but you don't - and the reason you don't is because...

There's pretty hefty mountain in the distance, so I suspect we are looking north from near Hwy 76 or 322. (but it can't be on 76 -...

Couldn't that be said about any mathematical object or operation? Say, 1+1=2? Or pi? Why pick on the monster group of all things? And...

No. It is the centre of a wide area. The poster lives near there (according my investigation. Their address is publicly available...

Yup. Although technically, that's a bearing. Same principle, different application.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum

What mankind invented was the axle. As fresh points out, there are plenty of circles in the natural world - and even things that roll...