Do you remember those video games where you go off one end and you come back around on the other side. That's a world where it can be true that 2+2 = 5.
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Shit, this isn't even a hot take Number theory (aka "higher arithmetic"), the pure study of the integers and their properties, was classically considered the "queen of mathematics" the way mathematics in general was the "queen of sciences" I.e. the most abstract and pure field
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There's a joke that number theorists used to pride themselves on having the one field of math that had the least practical application of any of them Then digital encryption happened and prime factorization suddenly became VERY important to government and business
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As best I can tell, zero and one are the closest things to be real. After that, it's all downhill.
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This is a take (the only reality is unity, the monad) that goes back to ancient Greece It's what Zeno's paradoxes were intended to prove Was he PoMo or "woke"
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