Even just an example that everyone is screaming about as logic-chopping and cheating is a good and important example worth thinking about That it's easy to add 2 pounds to 2 pounds and get 5 pounds, if you're using a scale that rounds 2.2 and 2.4 down to 2 and rounds 4.6 up to 5
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nor is 4.6 "5"
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
They are in real life There's never actually "2" of anything in real life, it's always 2.0321680636907731...
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This is a basic truth even when you're talking about counting sheep or stones Because the objects you're counting aren't truly identical and are standing in for some mass quantity like "kilos of wool" All measurement is approximation, even just counting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
lol Now imagine the airlines counting seats this way.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
The question of whether a baby who could in theory stay on a lap the whole time counts as a seat, or whether a fat person counts as two seats (and how fat they have to be before this is enforced) are all big real life questions airlines have to deal with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof
Irrelevant. One fat passenger is still one fat passenger. Regardless if they occupy two seats.
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Replying to @bitchimlying @perdricof
Yeah and if you're the airline, the seats are what is relevant and not the people
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You keep just tripping and falling on your face with every example you try to use
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Replying to @arthur_affect
If nothing else this really seems to illuminate how most people never learn enough mathematics to distinguish it from arithmetic
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