Some questions on Slate syntax

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>> You need not choose a theoretical anything.  Just observe.  Don't think so 
>> much. Counting starts at 1, because the smallest number of things you can 
>> /observe/ is 1.
>
> So when I look into, say, a matchbox and count that there are 0 matches
> in it, I'm not observing anything?

You cannot count 0 things.  This is a nonoperation, a self-contradiction.  You 
have confused the memory of a too familiar concept (0) with a perception.


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