[lit-ideas] Re: Can You Imagine 2 + 2 = 5?
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:29:05 +0000 (GMT)
--- Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
> A further problem is with 'imagine' --With G. E. Moore I have many problems
>
> imagining apples in a basket. But still, I can imagine an apple in a
> basket,
> and 2 + 2 apples making 4 apples. But 2 + 2 = 4 _in the abstract_ it's
> *harder* to imagine.
This may be true but bear in mind 2 raindrops + another 2 = 1 big raindrop.
And the same can be said of apples left in a basket where they deteriorate.
Donal
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