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appolose on 13 October 2008

I want to say something witty about Bertrand Russell here, but alas.



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Fayceless on 13 October 2008
Esmoreit said:
The Ghost of RubangB said:
I would use the scientific method, and take 2 dumbasses, and another 2 dumbasses, and then count the total. I would do this ten billion times, and then write a scientific law that 2 + 2 = 4. Then I'd kick you in the nuts.

 

The power of deduction is hardly scientific. If I see 100 white swans, then the 101th swan must be white aswell...

 

All science starts with definitions. How do you define 4 and 2?

Two and four are words.  Words describe ideas.  In this case, they describe quantity.  Numbers are defined by our perception of quantity.  Now stop making things more complicated than they need to be.