Numbers
A “number” is a mental symbol that integrates units into a single larger unit
(or subdivides a unit into fractions) with reference to the basic number of
“one,” which is the basic mental symbol of “unit.” Thus “5” stands for |||||.
(Metaphysically, the referents of “5” are any five existents of a specified
kind; epistemologically, they are represented by a single symbol.)
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Acknowledgments
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Atlas Shrugged , copyright © 1957 by Ayn Rand, The
Fountainhead , copyright © 1943 by Ayn Rand, and For the
New Intellectual , copyright © 1961 by Ayn Rand. Reprinted by
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Needs It , by Ayn Rand. Copyright © 1982 by
Leonard Peikoff, Executor, Estate of Ayn Rand. Reprinted by
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of Objectivism” lecture series. Copyright © 1976 by
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