Friday, December 11, 2009

Two "proofs" that 2 + 2 = 5

The rationalist proof:

Starting with the concept of a bean, adding two beans and another two beans makes five beans because the concept of a bean is a bean (an ideal platonic bean).


The empiricist proof:

Add together two lines of length 2.36 (of our units of length) to make a line of length 4.72, and then round those lengths to the nearest whole number (of units).

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