Quote: a sequence of number words is just that, a sequence with certain properties; not distinct from numbers

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Any object can play the role of 3; … 3 is that it defines that role--not by … third member of a progression bears to the … progressions have in common merely in virtue of … [p. 292] On this view the sequence of number … kinds of things, numbers and number words, but …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: arithmetic concerns the abstract structure of progression, and not particular objects--the numbers

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