@ikurwa89,
I like Pepijin's style. He's coming from a more poetic playful angle than most, but the tone is bright and kind.
Philosophy is arguably a sort of meeting place of poetry and math. It aspires, in many cases, to the rigor of mathematics, but this is impossible, as it is made of words.
Which ties into the issue of time. We can't have a rigorous conception of speed until we think of time in numerical terms. This also applies to dynamics in general. F =ma. If force equals mass times acceleration, and acceleration is the rate of change of speed, and speed is distance over time, then time-as-number becomes utterly necessary to conceive of force in Newtonian terms. If time were not a number in the context of physics, I don't see how we could understand gravity. And yet what is this number based on but memory and perception of change. A counting of sunrises and finally strange devices like atomic clocks.