(November 6, 2016 at 10:21 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Some other thing might be gloople and glorp. 2, 5, identity, these can all be the same things in that different universe and yield the sum of 5 -because- those other things are differnt, because of gloople and glorp (whatever they are). I would certainly call the ruleset, even if it included identity alongside gloople and glorp "something other than logical" - but this business about the hypothetical failing to identity, it just doesn't. In a different universe, things would be different. It's a different universe, where, again, 5 just is what you get when you add those quantities together, for whatever reason, as weird as that sounds to us because it doesn't happen here (there's our glorp). Their math would reflect that reality, and the law of identity... if it applied in that universe... would apply to the same.
Then it's not math. It's something else.
