what is 2 + 2 =, think philosophical about it and argue me on my answer.?

Question

This answer must be supported...no none sense answers such as the one i'm think (4).

Answer 1

Well, if you WANT to argue about 2+2=4, there are any number of things that are assumed in math that you could choose to challenge if you wish. For example:

TWO HAS A CONCRETE DEFINITION. What really IS two? Some would argue that it's not as certain as many make it seem. Two people are made up of hundreds of organs and zillions of atoms. Is it appropriate to call them 'two', considering that? What if one of the two is pregnant - are they two or three?

MATH IS ONLY APPROXIMATION. A two could be said to be proceeded and followed by an infinite number of zeroes. But it is possible to really affect things that are infinite? There are mathematical ways of determining such things, and they seem to work, but what if this function is only an illusion. If 1.9 repeating is the same as two, does that not hint that two is not really concrete?

SUMMATION RETAINS DISTINCTNESS. If you take two small glasses of water and pour them into one large glass, how many glasses do you have? One. 1+1=1. If you take two fighting fish in put them in the same tank, how many will you have? One (after a moment or two). 1+1=1 again! If you take two willing adults of different sex and lock them in a room together with lots of food and check back in a year or two, you may find three people in that room. 1+1=3. Depending on how things interact, you may easily have much more or less of what math might predict when you start putting things together!

THERE IS MORE THAN ONE THING IN THE UNIVERSE. There are those who would argue that all things are really just manifestations of one thing, and that plurality in the universe does not in fact exist. If this is so, then even 'two' is impossible, except as a manifestation of the one. If there is only Tao, then 2+2=1, not 4.

THE EQUATION HAS MEANING. Even if we all agree on the meanings of the components and the function of math, we may dispute that math has any actual application to the real world. For example, there is no 'two'. There are two OF things, but the universe does not contain an essential 'two'. So where is the two? In our minds. This arguably, makes it about as real as dragons, unicorns, and other things which can only be found entirely in our minds.

I'm sure if you think about it, you can probably think of many more. It is an interesting thought exercise to see all the assumptions that are made on a regular basis. Whether it is useful to BEHAVE as if all these assumptions were untrue is, however, a completely different discussion.

Answer 2

2+2=x

Answer 3

Following fuzzy logic, would say 630 before the gene pool was contaminated by inbreeding.

granting that there are 2 males and 2 females
if they stay monogamous for 20 years (stay with just the one male) them at 20 years each couple can logically conceive 24 children

if in both couples (m1/f1 and m2/f2) each have 24 children and 12 are male and 12 are female of both sets of children the the 24 couples (the children in a monogamous relationship for 20 years can logically have 24 kids

so
2 males +2females =48 kids
of 48 kids=24 males+24 females
the 48 kids each pair up=24
each couple of kids has 24 kids
plus the original 48 kids=

630

Answer 4

2 + 2 equals the sum total of our lives in the universe. We are born two a mother and a father = 2. We are immediately moved two a nursery two be monitored.

We take our first breathe and have to take a second inorder to be deemed ok we have to make one bowl move before 24 hours and the second before we leave the hospital

we leave the hospital on two wheels in the front of the car and two wheels on the back of the car 4

2+2= 4

Answer 5

Two plus two equals whatever you want it too. Math is simply another way of breaking down the universe/collective through our minds/mental to make the universe/collective make sense to the physical world. In a collective sense, the numbers themselves don't even exist let alone what it equals. In a mental sense, two plus two equals whatever quantity of whatever two you have. In a our physical sense, it normally equals four. Math is one of those philosophies you have to ask why and search for proofs, the problems themselves are rather simple.

Answer 6

2 apples + 2 oranges = 2 oranges + 2 apples. The sum is not really 4, since your question did not specify what are you adding. Got the point?

Answer 7

Ah. Well, look no further, I have the answer. 2+2=fish This is supported by the hypothesis which states: If two trains laden with are headed towards each other at two miles per hour, and two plus two equals fish, Then we can conclude that four bananas are in a bushel of grapes. Therefor, two plus two CLEARLY equals four, which, if defined, is the number of bananas in a bushel of grapes that caused the accident between the two trains carrying fish at two miles per hour.

Answer 8

This has to be the rubbishest question.So what DO you think the answer should be?

Why did you even bother asking this, are you stuck on your homework? Here's an idea, count two of your fingers, and then count another two, now add this up and you get? See? No need to post this question in the philosophy section.

Answer 9

You want me to argue with you that the answer is not four? What is so philosophical about that? Nothing.

Answer 10

It equals more than you started with, but is that enough? A gain is always positive but does it satisfy your yearning? Are you satisfied with this or are you going to continue searching for something you don't actually know what?