The Chinese logical philosopher Gongsun Long (ca. 325–250 BC) proposed the paradox "One and one cannot become two, since neither becomes two."
If one is added to one then the group one and one would contain two ones
each one of the ones their-selves do not achieve the state of being two
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One and one cannot become two
Whether or not this argument is provable, overly simply, or a serious argument to consider the fundamental ways in which we quantify reality or begin to perceive the closest conceptions to fact and truth based on simple math, it proves to be to be an interesting assertion
what do you think?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic#cite_note-18
Huh, sort of an instance where we need to be aware that language is not the same as what it is describing. In the end when we say one and one are two we are not referring to one object at the end of a process but discussing several objects in quantity as a sort of short hand so we don't have to go through describing all the objects.
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