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2+2 = not what you think

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Changing someone's mind is very difficult, that's why I like puzzles most people get wrong: to try to open their mind. Challenging the claim that 2+2 is unequivocally 4 is one of my favorites to get people to reconsider what they think is true with 100% certainty.

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Based on his reputation and without reading what he wrote, no I don’t think he was being dishonest.

That's literally an argument from authority fallacy.

Plenty of philosophers have doubted even the most fundamental concepts of everything, including reality itself. Solipsism is a serious philosophical concept, which includes doubting that 1+1 is necessarily 2, and Bertrand Russell entertained that possibility.

It’s not a fallacy because I assume the content of his argument is not the content of your argument. I’m unable to comment on what he wrote. I have told you what I take issue with in your argument and it isn’t the part where you say Bertrand Russel said it too.

It’s not a fallacy because I assume the content of his argument is not the content of your argument.

But you are assuming his argument is valid merely on the basis of his credentials.

And you are assuming my argument is invalid merely on the basis of my credentials.

That's a fallacy.

No, this is a bizarre reading of the situation. Goodbye