So a concern about losing basic shared understanding is ridiculous, apparently.
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @arthur_affect and
Do you know how to prove 1+1=2?
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect and
Your point is to turn back the clock on basic knowledge and learning, I guess?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @arthur_affect and
On the contrary, proving 1+1=2 was a massive leap forward in our understanding mathematics as a concept. It also happened in 1910 after we had been just accepting it for thousands of years, and if you reject Russell's axioms it falls apart.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @Aya62335284 and
And trust me, you don't want to go into geometry.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect and
So we should or should not consider it a good thing that we have a shared knowledge of what 2 means?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @arthur_affect and
We have a shared assumption, not knowledge. There's an important distinction.
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Replying to @BetaDecayPlus @arthur_affect and
Definitions can be regarded as knowledge and we have a shared definition. It’s funny to see you play with definitions when (and I’m not conservative) you declare absolutely that “all terrorists are conservative.” Or do you admit that’s an (ill-founded) assumption?
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Replying to @Aya62335284 @BetaDecayPlus and
You don't have the depth for this conversation, you really don't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BetaDecayPlus and
That’s one way you can disagree with someone...
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And often the only productive one
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