Thread: How intelligent do you think you are?

Originally Posted by tommo

But I don't understand why you can't prove it.

Just take, as you say. 0 socks, and then put 5 socks down. You have 5 socks. Done.

Read my post closer, I went to a lot of length explaining this... I was not asking for proof of '0 + 5 = 5', I was asking for proof of '0 + x = x'. If you thought I would ever ask for proof of the former then the message of my post totally went over your head; please try to read it with more concentration.

This has nothing to do with Philosopher's post by the way; he was just making the point that many people can't cope with simple abstraction. I was elaborating way beyond that, Phil probably doesn't even agree with me.