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What is truth
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I think it is pretty reasonable to assume that the symbols +, =, 2 and 4 are well enough understood, to the extent that one CAN assert that 2 + 2 = 4 in arithmetical terms.
Thus, this IS an example of a hard and fast truth.
If someone wants to apportion a different definition to what is universally understood to any of these symbols, then of course that truth may no longer apply.
Poirot, a similar sort of thing applies when you are looking an illustration or a computer screen and saying; ‘that is a pipe’ or ‘that is not a pipe’.
If you take it for granted that you are looking at an image, then you can assert that you are looking at a pipe. If you don’t take for granted that you are looking at an image rather than the real thing, then you can assert that it isn’t a pipe, but rather, is an image of a pipe.
But it is bleedingly obvious that it is an illustration and computer-generated image that we have been looking at. With that in mind, and with no need to mention it because it is so obvious, we CAN indeed assert that what we are looking at is a pipe… just as we don’t need to question the meaning of +, =, 2 or 4.