They were always there even when they applied to nothing. Gradually the world came into being and then they applied to it. In fact, those words themselves were what formed the world. That, John, is ridiculous. The problem, the contradiction the scientists are stuck with, is that of mid.
Logic exists in the mind, Numbers exist only in the mind.
I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. It's that only that gets me. Science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. Or ghost either. I was thinking about this same lack of care in the digital computer manuals I was editing.