1 + 1 = ? ....................................?

Question

Pls assist.

Answer 1

Arithmetically it is two and philosophically it is eleven

Answer 2

1 and 1

Answer 3

2

Answer 4

1+1=2
1-1=0

Answer 5

Since you are using mathematical symbology, it would seem reasonable to come to a mathematical conclusion. That would be 2.

But if you want to explore that idea further, there are any number of things that are assumed in math that you could choose to challenge if you wish. For example:

IS REDUCTIVIST COUNTING VALID? 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 MAY NOT BE ABSOLUTE. A two could be said to be preceded 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 perhaps a region instead of a point?

THINGS INTERACT. 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). 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!

NOT ALL THINGS CAN BE ADDED. One apple plus one orange equals one apple and one orange. 1+1 = 1+1. You will never get two apples or two oranges this way. Oil plus water equals oil and water. Some things do not add, mix, or go together, no matter how much you try!

THERE IS NO TWO. 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 1+1=1, not 2 (they might dispute that plus sign, too).

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 6

Asking the question "1 + 1 = ?" is in itself irrelevant, if its presuppositions are invalid. In asking the question it appears that it is pre-supposed that those markings have any meaning ( I refer of course to the shapings involved in the question). The way in which the so called "numbers" appear to have a universal meaning, implies the question is impersonal, yet that is not stated, so the question cannot be provided with an answer, that is 'correct', until it has been elaborated.
However, the way in which numeric symbols are used as opposed to lingual markings, implies that the question is a mathmatical one and so one would logically conclude (considering no other values are offered and hence render it be a question not of the algerbraic variety) that a mathmatically simple answer should be provided and that of course everybody knows to be "2". I don't believe a complex answer is required, as the abbreviated speech following the question and its seemingly mocking tone implies that s/he isn't fully serious.

Answer 7

2! It can be proven through fact families.

1+1=2
2-1=1
yepp yepp! Smart cookie.

Basically, in the deeper version what we've been learning since our childhood isn't always based on lies unexplainable. Stop asking dumb questions and start living.

Your awnser is 2 but I'm not sure math is your real problem....I don't think 2 is the awnser u want either...

Answer 8

81

Answer 9

1+1= 2!



good luck!

Answer 10

And some of these answers are what "new math" has done for the masses. There is much ado about nothing. It is 2 and always will be. There is nothing philosophical about it. Anything else is irrelevant and any other answer is conjecture.

Answer 11

1+1=1
in philosophy that phrase is tricky due to the basic math principle (1+1=2) but it is referring to relationships and when a man meets and marries a woman, the two become one.