Why Zero should be a symbol and not a number (Philosophy of math/metaphysics)

[Ichthus77 (Ichthus77 (formerly She™))]

@Echogem222

0 is a physical fiction (you can’t add two absences together)

reminds me of:

@Ichthus77

It’s ¬ absence. It’s difference. There’s a difference (¬ absence).

¬ should (does) ¬ always mean the same thing in logic/math…language. Using one symbol for all senses of ¬ is equivocation—why do the different (¬ lack of) senses get lumped into one word/symbol?

#petpeeve

and:

In levels of measurement in statistics (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)… zero does ¬ mean absence at the interval (but ¬ ratio) level, which can go into negative numbers (which also do ¬ mean absence).