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ViciDraco · 41-45, M
If enough people agree that it is true, it is true. Not because it changes reality, but because it has forced a change in the language we use to describe reality. Mathematics, at the end of the day, is a language used to describe a very specific thing. In a world where 2+2=22 is true, the reason is because our understanding of either 2 or + or = or 22 or some combination thereof is different.
As an example, in many computer programming languages if you take 2 as a text character and + as a string concatenate command, you indeed get a string result of 22. The statement is truthful, but the understanding behind it is different.
As an example, in many computer programming languages if you take 2 as a text character and + as a string concatenate command, you indeed get a string result of 22. The statement is truthful, but the understanding behind it is different.