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Odd and Even:
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No, I don't mean numbers. I was hoping we could get into a discusson about how "the concept of odd and even is a philosophical illusion."
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FreezBee
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xAtheistx said:
Ok, so we have been there. Here's a quote as proof for my own case:
It's a 7 year old girl on the radio explaining to her father that the concept of odd and even is a philosophical illusion. We're still stumped. I think it has to be on a more abstract level than numbers that she is refering to. I'm gonna break down and ask a couple professors at school today what they think. Perhaps some of them are AAR listeners. You know thta whole stereotype of the liberal intellectual elite. They might have even heard the radio spot themselves.
I still think it's even odd, what this is all about. An even number is a (whole) number evenly divisible by 2, an odd number is a (whole) number that is not even.
Now, the odd thing is that if we imagine any whole number and multiply it by 2, we get an even number. Therefore, to any whole number corresponds a unique even number, so we could replace the whole numbers by just the even numbers and be done with the problem
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