What does ancient philosophy reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part I of II
Philosophy: abstraction, ‘…numbers were the realities of the universe
Religion: life
Science: substance
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If numbers were the true reality of the universe, then numbers such as 1, 2, 3… were elements of such a universe.
It was not the number itself that was the entity; it was the concept.
The written numeral was a hieroglyphic, a piece of chalk spread out on a piece of slate leaving the impression of a number symbol.
If it was the concept of the number, not the numeral that was the essence of reality, then even the ancients recognized the perception of existence being a summation of its parts.
The concept of oneness, the number one, was in essence the concept of the individual.
The concept of twoness, the number two, was the concept of two individuals, and so forth.