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Does the Wheel Exist in Nature?
Prime numbers exist whether we discover them or not. Infinitesimals exist whether we find them or not. American Indians never invented wheels, North or South. I think it is safe to say that a wheel does not exist until someone creates one. Does the number six exist when no one is thinking about it? I think so. Again, clearly the notation is invented. Roman numerals were invented. But the concepts represented by those notations exist independent of the symbols used to describe them, awaiting our discovery.
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