Who said something like "The fact that putting 2 apples next to 2 other apples leads to there being 4 apples there has nothing to do with the fact that 2 + 2 = 4"?

post by hunterglenn · 2022-06-13T22:23:17.888Z · LW · GW · 1 comment

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answer by Bezzi · 2022-06-15T16:40:00.504Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

I suppose you are talking about this quote from the Sequences (A Priori [LW · GW]):

James R. Newman said:  "The fact that one apple added to one apple invariably gives two apples helps in the teaching of arithmetic, but has no bearing on the truth of the proposition that 1 + 1 = 2."

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comment by weathersystems · 2022-06-15T14:54:21.931Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Do you have anything else you remember about the statement? Where you heard it, when you heard it etc.