This philophical quandary, I posit, is solved in the mere definition of what a thing is.
A thing is a noun.
A noun is a person, place, object, or idea.
A crease in this paradigm is an idea. It is this a thing. There are 2 things in the room.
There’s more, though. There’s air presumably. There’s walls? What are they made of? Are they painted? How about the floor? A stale fart? Confusion over the number of things in the room?
Ideas are nouns.
This philophical quandary, I posit, is solved in the mere definition of what a thing is.
A thing is a noun.
A noun is a person, place, object, or idea.
A crease in this paradigm is an idea. It is this a thing. There are 2 things in the room.
There’s more, though. There’s air presumably. There’s walls? What are they made of? Are they painted? How about the floor? A stale fart? Confusion over the number of things in the room?
Still, all nouns.