No. That's not actually true. And that's not what is happening here. What is happening is that it is being pointed out that due to the imprecise nature of reality, as opposed to the fantasy of pure logic, sometimes 2 + 2 = 5.
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Replying to @ArcaneHedge @Aya62335284 and
In the context of algebra and in the context of reality, 2+2 always equals 4. You are gaslighting yourself.
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Replying to @StuartM21825168 @Aya62335284 and
No. You're trying to gaslight me. I know that in the real world it is impossible to have an exact. Especially when you're working with weights and measures. Algebra works within the fantasy of pure logic.
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Replying to @ArcaneHedge @Aya62335284 and
Most of the world is exact. Some of it is imprecise. 2+2=4 is one of those things that is exact. This is one of the weird ideas of post-modernism where that adherents claim that there is no objective truth. When most of the time there is objective truth. Pretzel brain.
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Replying to @StuartM21825168 @Aya62335284 and
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never been camping.
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Replying to @ArcaneHedge @Aya62335284 and
Unrelated to counting. BTW I have gone camping a lot. One time out for a full month. A personal challenge that I was not sure I could do. Character building it was. Forced a new relationship with reality. Also camped in Montana in the winter. Different challenge.
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Replying to @StuartM21825168 @Aya62335284 and
And you still think reality is precise? You're either a liar or deluded.
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Replying to @ArcaneHedge @Aya62335284 and
Reality is very precise. I expect that your relationship with reality is tenuous.
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Reality may be precise (well, really, that's a tautological and therefore meaningless statement -- things match themselves with infinite precision) People aren't, and only people can actually do math and science
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Replying to @arthur_affect @StuartM21825168 and
It's funny because this isn't even "critical theory" or whatever It *leads* to critical theory, I suppose, if you're willing to apply that attitude in depth to all things But it's just a basic statement of humility, necessary to begin doing any kind of quantitative study
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Numbers as applied to the real world aren't absolute truths because the process of applying numbers to the real world is subjective That's not PoMo ivory tower Cultural Marxism That's just true If you actually don't believe that and keep that in mind, you're very dangerous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @StuartM21825168 and
Anyone who’s taking freshman chemistry and understood “significant figures” knows this to be true
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