Abstract Folks dream of having a 1 million dollar account in a number 1 bank. They enjoy movies where Agent 007 demonstrates again and again that he is a cat of 9 lives. These and similar examples testify to the ubiquity of numbers which we use daily without giving much thought to what number is. This problem is well known to philosophers who tried to suggest a comprehensive explanation of the category of number, and who found themselves in a deadlock.
Number is the product of the human mind.
In these domains, number acquires individual properties that can be considered as the elaboration and extension of one and the same complex schema. In this presentation, I will center on the schema of Naive Number used in everyday life. It is the concept of Naive Number that undergoes transformations in mythology and mathematics, and it is this concept which is used in natural language. All these phenomena relate to profiling a particular element of the Number's complex schema. Integration of such an element with the other concepts is regulated by the conceptual network.