[lit-ideas] Re: Imagination and maths [and maybe more.....]
- From: Eric Yost <NYCEric@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:40:22 -0500
Donal asks:
1. Can a person imagine '2+2=4'?
2. Can a person imagine '2+2=5'?
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Do you mean "imagine" particular examples or the generic math? Or the
math itself?
It's easy to imagine two couples meeting at a coffee shop to hold court
at a table of four. It's also easy to imagine this same group nine
months later, one couple with a newborn child.
On the other hand, arithmetic itself resists visualization. To imagine
the arithmetic itself, one may have to visualize the numbers on a
blackboard--even though that image is only another particular example of
the math.
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