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protokatie:
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--- Quote from: protokatie on December 31, 2008, 11:07:19 pm --- I guess when someone really believes in something, there will be no way to change their minds; even if it is the most basic of logic.
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It doesn't help when you have well-meaning folk, say like those who did the math episodes of Schoolhouse Rock, doing TV shows where they talk about a base-12 system without calling it that and obviously not understanding it, because they have to make up two names and symbols for 'ten' and 'eleven', and still say 'twelve' is really TEN.
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Well, 10 IS twelve... In base twelve that is... ;)
Yeah, I hear ya tho.
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I can count to 15! ;D
RayB:
--- Quote from: protokatie on December 31, 2008, 11:07:19 pm ---When I got into a logical discussion about it (aka me pointing out that such things as calendars are arbitrary) they would reply that basic mathematics was just as arbitrary. Their "proof" of this would be in the form of "What exactly is One?". Now this question "could work" as one is meaningless unless it is related to something else (such as One Apple, or One percent of the GDP), but when I explained how quantification worked, they said that my view would be in the same level of what I thought to be arbitrary. Even after explaining to them that a date on a calendar is something arbitrary and isnt numerically or even logically related to any real event, they would say that my apple or percent of gross domestic product was also arbitrary. I guess when someone really believes in something, there will be no way to change their minds; even if it is the most basic of logic.
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Well if you think about it, they invalidated their own point of view by saying math is also arbitrary. (It's not the same, but their own argument invalidates numerology).
Necro:
--- Quote from: Level42 on December 28, 2008, 04:58:48 pm ---Nonsense !
Everybody knows that the answer to all and everything is:
42
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What's 7 times 6!
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