"The sum of 2 and 2 IS 4" is not refuted by "our 2's might not be exactly 2" If it's not actually 2 then it's sum is of course not actually 4. This does nothing to change the fact that actually-two plus actually-two equals four
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I mean the obnoxious thing about this is you aren't really talking about arithmetic, you're playing culture war games using a hoary cliche (not even an original one, not even one original to Orwell) and when someone challenges your metaphor on the object level you get all red
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Seriously, it's funny I mean it's fun for me to talk about math using you chuds as a springboard regardless but it also is entertaining and revelatory looking at your weird little religion where you think you're resisting Big Brother and shit
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The purpose is that despite the 2 in the saying being an abstract it was meant to be an example of another abstract concept (yeah I know you have trouble with those) of a universally true statement that deranged lunatics will still try to distort.
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2+2=4 could be substituted with any other statement that serves the same purposepic.twitter.com/TxItpa8aPm
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Exactly. And on the other hand asking "for what numbers n is 2+2=5 modulo n?" is an actual exercise you might see in an upper level undergraduate math course
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