## 1 - 0 >> many - 1

* Author: u/munin295 *
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/6cfn5b/1_0_many_1/
* Score: 5

* Created: 2017-05-21T09:04:39

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/superk2001** [+5]  (an hour later)
> 
> Maybe a variation of privledging the hypothesis - once you have seen one instance of a unicorn most of the work into what animal you could see has already been done.

> **u/Geminii27** [+2]  (an hour later)
> 
> I do see your point. I'm not aware of whether there's a specific name for it. Going from zero to one often involves the concept of whether a thing is actually even possible at all, such as when a new device is invented, or a new technique is tested for the first time and works.
> 
> Going from one to many doesn't have that same fundamental attachment to sheer existence; if one of something is already around, it exists, and making more doesn't change its ability to exist. (Although it does involve checking off the "reproducibility" box.)

> **u/LupoCani** [+2]  (2 hours later)
> 
> I suspect the math behind this is simple multiplication/division. `1` in infinitely many times larger than `0`, but `many` is only `many` times larger than `1`.

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