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  • 1. 0 is a number.
    2. The immediate successor of a number is also a number.
    3. 0 is not the immediate successor of any number.
    4. No two numbers have the same immediate successor.
    5. Any property belonging to 0 and to the immediate successor of any number that also has that property belongs to all numbers.

    "Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science" by Peter Atkins, Ch. 10, (p. 333), 2003.
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