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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And the point of the actual mathematician replying to this making fun of it is that this is a pointless, ridiculous thing to get heated about People in the business of defending sacred eternal verities need to get a better hobby (like making fun of those people)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
Who gives a shit about "universally true statements" The purpose of saying words is to accomplish some kind of goal, which entirely depends on what you're doing at the moment Mathematicians know this better than anybody
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Your entire argument boils down to "observations are merely an approximation of reality" which is not novel, and in fact painfully obvious. It also has no bearing on the underlying reality which functions independently of your imperfect observations. And now for Chu's next trick:
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Replying to @Gent_Sausage @arthur_affect and
Except he never said or implied it was either novel or non-obvious, so what are you on about?
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Replying to @SusieusMaximus @Gent_Sausage and
The whole point is that it is obvious, but people are still somehow offended by the idea.
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The Gentleman Sausage Retweeted 🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥
Because everyone is going out of their way to forget that Kareem himself said what I've been saying, which is what you're all trying to refute because you all misread him it seemshttps://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1289724480244285445 …
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🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥 @kareem_carrPeople like this sound stupid but they are making a tremendously deep point. Our numbers, our quantitative measures, are abstractions of real underlying things in the universe and it's important to keep track of this when we use numbers to model the real world. 4/Show this thread2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @Gent_Sausage @SusieusMaximus and
No, he's saying I'm the one who "sounds stupid but am making a tremendously deep point" Not you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
Arthur Chu Retweeted 🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥
Like, shit, this is literally you You are trying to dismiss me as an idiot because you think it's stupid to see a statement like "2+2=5" and ask any further questionshttps://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1289724502767632384?s=20 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect @SusieusMaximus and
No, I'm pointing out that your forced gotchas have no bearing on the properties inherent to 2 itself
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2 doesn't exist, it's made up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Gent_Sausage and
An instrumentalist and a platonist walk into a bar. BAR TENDER: Not you two again. GET OUT! PLATONIST: So you agree with me: There are two of us. INSTRUMENTALIST: Yes, two flesh and blood people, which have no bearing on whether the abstract entity two exists independently.
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