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Soja	Sep 25 2008, 07:26 PM
Gentle Water, Crashing Waves Posts: 5,175 Group: Global Moderator Member #451 Joined: October 15, 2005	The practice of mathematics is a form of symbolic relation. We apply meanings to things in order to give them significance. This is true also with language. We could argue that the ability to communicate was discovered as well, but the way in which that communication is done was invented. It is the same for mathematics. While the rudiments of what we apply the symbols of mathematics to might have existed before human cognition, our understanding of those things as mathematics did not exist until we created a fundamental system for keeping track of them, numerals. Even then, the concept of zero did not exist for a while longer. So mathematics is one of those things that has been gradually built upon.
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