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Imagine a universe, where, when you combine two apples (or really anything), you always, through some weird physical process, end up with three items. Would th

by prmph 4y ago

Imagine a universe, where, when you combine two apples (or really anything), you always, through some weird physical process, end up with three items. Would that invalidate (or not), the statement that 1 + 1 = 2?

eesmith 4y ago
1 cloud combined with 1 cloud gives 1 cloud.
- feanaro 4y ago
  That's just some additional structure pertaining to, specifically, clouds. One cloud standing close to another cloud still equals two clouds, which is what 1 + 1 = 2 is really encoding.