Harvard tweets 2+2 = 5 . This only part of why we must purge academia of all Marxists, Post-Modernists and SJWs. - Kotaku In Action 2

Harvard tweets 2+2 = 5 . This only part of why we must purge academia of all Marxists, Post-Modernists and SJWs. (media.kotakuinaction2.win)

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– reidj 40 points 4 years ago +40 / -0

Literal-minded people might say things like I put a rooster and a hen together and I come back a year later, and there are three of them (1+1 = 3)... People like this may sound stupid, but they are making a tremendously deep point... So when somebody tells me "2+2=5", I WILL ALWAYS ask them for more details rather than just dismissing them as an idiot because maybe they're talking about chickens and turns out that's how chickens work.

This is just trickery. The author is modeling two different problems. The first is "If I have 1 rooster and 1 hen, I have 2 chickens in all." The other is "If I had 2 adult chickens last year and they have 1 chick, I have 3 chickens in all."

Alternatively, you could consider it hidden information. "If I have 1 rooster and 1 hen, and they have 1 chick, I have 3 chickens."

In any case, if we allow this kind of thinking, 1+1 = Any positive integer or 0.

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– FMantothemax 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

That's almost like saying a pun has deep philosophical meaning because it can convey two meanings in one phrase.

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