Thread: What was the first number?

Originally Posted by The Cusp

One and Two probably came into existence at the same time. The concept of being singular is pretty meaningless without a plurality to compare it to.

I think "that" and "those" were the first number set. Probably "that," since "those" specifies no number, and "that" specifies one (one singular or one group of other things, it;s still one). Or at least whatever translates to those words.
Maybe "gone," too.

The number 1 would have had to be the first number.
Because if the fist number to exist was, say, 2, then the only number in existance at that time to describe that number would have been 2, so it would be the 2nd number, and not the first, because "1st" didn't exist yet.

Get it?
The first number had to be one.

Then came zero, because there had to be something to signify when there wasn't one. Then came all the other numbers.

In fact, there may not be any other numbers except 0 and 1, because you can't have one "two." It's just a plural amounts of ones....