I’ve proved that 1 plus 1 does not equal 2 before. I told a guy this, and he said go ahead, prove it. First I said, "Give me “1”. Go find “1” and give me “1”. He gave me a pencil. I said, “That’s not “1”. That’s a pencil.” He said, “it’s one pencil”. I answered, “I did not say ‘one pencil’. I said give me 1.” Here we were at an impasse. I said, "Okay, I will concede here, even though I have the advantage. Now, I’ll try another approach. Give me 1 pencil and 1 sheet of paper. If we put one and one together we should have “2”. So, we have a pencil and a sheet of paper, but do we have “2”? He said “yes”. I asked, " “what do you have 2 of?” He said, “I have two objects. Two things.” I answered that the term “object” was more slippery than he thought. A comet speeding across the cosmos is an object, and so is a screw. So if you have a comet and a screw you have two objects, but the term “object” is so obtuse as to be meaningless. A massive boulder and a wheat seed are two objects, but if you put them together what do you have? Two objects? The term “object” is so obtuse as to be meaningless for our discussion.
It’s a very readable paragraph but not as earth shattering as i was hoping
When you have 1 male and 1 female of a species the combination of those results in a number greater than 2.
A tree has apples.
A strong gust of wind shakes the tree, after which the tree no longer has apples, but the ground below doesn’t have apples either.
How many apples were in the tree before the wind started?
Answer: two. The wind causes one apple to fall. Therefore, the tree no longer has “apples”, it only has “apple”. And the ground below also has “apple”.
Language is inherently ambiguous.
without the certainty of mathematics no technology would exist.
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