G: “Mommy, airplanes are faster than trains and trains are faster than people, so airplanes must be faster than people!”
on his way to the S.A.T.
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Monkey: “The propositions of mathematics have, therefore, the same unquestionable certainty which is typical of such propositions as ‘All bachelors are unmarried,’ but they also share the complete lack of empirical content which is associated with that certainty: The propositions of mathematics are devoid of all factual content; they convey no information whatever on any empirical subject matter.”
Tank: “That is patently absurd.”
James, good things our kids hang out together. Now they can sharpen each other’s wit and make themselves super smart.
I keep trying to explain to Monkey how all mathematics has proven to be eminently applicable to empirical subject matter. But you know how toddlers are, they just don’t listen.