[lbo-talk] Calculators (Was Re: Freud)

Curtiss Leung curtiss_leung at ibi.com
Fri Feb 20 10:28:17 PST 2004


Gary?


> try this- turn on your calculator, punch in two times two and press
equals,
> four appears !!
>
> where in the hell has the four been hiding all this time.

But then the tormentor from the first part of Saul Kripke's book on Wittgenstein would jump out and say, "But you're mistaken: the calculator key marked 'X' used to perform an operation called 'vimes' not 'times' and '2 vimes 2' equals 5. Don't you remember our talk about 'quus' and 'plus' the other day?"

Curtiss



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