the best thing about being a writer -- part LIII
$Zero
it's the ifs.
it's the big ifs and the small ifs.
it's Unicornian Mathematics.
because...
IF 3 + 3 = 5
AND 2 + 2 = 3 + 3
AND 3 > 2
THEN 2 + 2 = 5 is...
True
not because any of the premises are false.
nor invalid.
...
it's true because of the ifs.
the big ifs and the small ifs.
it's true because of the inexorable nature of
the relationship between odd and even numbers.
...
it's not some sort of Orwellian brainwash.
it's true because it's true.
...
it's true because it all adds up...
perfectly.
-$Zero...
the best thing about being a writer -- part LII
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/f783b9a2f97c1fea
Piet de Arcilla
> the best thing about being a writer -- part LIII
>
> it's the ifs.
>
> it's the big ifs and the small ifs.
>
> it's Unicornian Mathematics.
>
> because...
>
> IF 3 + 3 = 5
> AND 2 + 2 = 3 + 3
> AND 3 > 2
>
> THEN 2 + 2 = 5 is...
>
> True
If = means what it usually does, then > does not. And vice versa.
$Zero
bzzzt.
wrong.
-$Zero...
it's true because of the inexorable nature of
the relationship between odd and even numbers.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/940365d254eedde9
Piet de Arcilla
odd + odd = even
even + even = even
even + odd = odd
That would be inconsistent with your propositions.
$Zero
in the proposition above, um = 0.5
so, in that case:
odd + odd = odd
even + even = odd
even + odd = odd
however, when um = 0.0
then:
odd + odd = even
even + even = even
even + odd = odd
...
there is only one logical rational reason for all of the below
conditions to be true at once:
IF 3 + 3 = 5
AND 2 + 2 = 3 + 3
AND 3 > 2
and that one logical rational reason is:
um = 0.5
you gotta respect the ifs, dude.
(if you want to be completely logical, that is).
-$Zero...
it's one plus one equals two.
(except when they don't).
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/fec69e6a605f9f61