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minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoWell, you can naturally have zero of something. In fact, you have zero of most things right now.
minus-squareAnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoHow do you know so much about my life?
minus-squarewhotookkarl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 months agoHow do I have anything if I have nothing of something?
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoBut 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).
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThere’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.
minus-squaretate@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agothere’s no limit to the things you don’t have, because that includes all of the things that don’t exist.
minus-square✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoOnly if you’re able to define things that don’t exist by infinities.
Well, you can naturally have zero of something. In fact, you have zero of most things right now.
How do you know so much about my life?
How do I have anything if I have nothing of something?
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).
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.
there’s no limit to the things you don’t have, because that includes all of the things that don’t exist.
Only if you’re able to define things that don’t exist by infinities.