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Does it have to be exact moment? Most inventions go through refinement over time. Is one point more valid than all the others? Or more...

That is where this is posted. It is the poster who is asking for explanations. I have DM'd them for confirmation about environs near...

The poster's boilerplate says PA. Zip code confirms it.

All right. The wolves act like a pack in tangible ways: inter-pack dynamics, pecking orders, etc. This is distinct from how they act...

Eh. Fine. I thought we could distinguish between the confidence in paleobiology and the confidence in pack mentaility but OK, let's use...

I am on no way suggesting it is random. Please don't put that on me. I'm not some Creationist. Nothing I said should warrant that response.

My point exactly. So objectively not part of any human abstraction. Individuals in the herd behave in particular way because they are a...

Agree. But I'm not sure it invalidates my point. Can someone show me the monster group in-the-wild? Not component of it; bnot elents...

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...