Well ob1, I know English isn't your first language... I am having a little bit of trouble understanding your point.
There are people that argue all manner of things aren't so. For example, there is a large group of people in the U.S. (led by Irwin Schiff) that maintain U.S. income taxes are unconstitutional. The thousands of pages of IRS revenue code doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that every judge has ruled income tax is legal. They maintain their position. (Personally I think they're just opposed to paying taxes and this is their little form of rationalization)
Sometimes you can over analyze something. Math is based on the simple concept of quantity. If I have 1 rock, and my friend has 3 rocks, if we put them together we have 4 rocks. The rocks may be different shapes and sizes (hence not equal), but there will always be 4 rocks. All higher forms of math stem from this basic concept. There are upper, theoretical, systems of math that I grant are in debate. But the discussion of these systems is far beyond the scope of this Forum.
You could argue that the numbers themselves are somewhat irrelevant. Our entire system of math is based on a base 10 system. Base 10 means we use 10 digits in our numeric representations, 0 through 9. Our numbering system took this form because humans have 10 fingers. Early caveman counted on his fingers. (On a tangent, 10 is not a digit in base 10. It is a combination of 0 and 1. When zero became a mathematical concept in early Egypt, the numbering system changed from 1-10 to 0-9.)
Now, here's the interesting part. You can change base systems and have the quantity unchanged. Any computer programmer out there knows all about different base systems. Computers use binary (base 2), octal (base 8), and hex (base 16). In binary, if I wanted to write 5 (base 10) I would write it: 101. It still represents the quantity 5, it's just written differently.
But numbers are only labels. What they represent does not change. A table is a table, whether it is called a table, mesa, or tabelle.
