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What do you mean when you say that all mathematics is based on the notion that one plus one equals two?Assuming of course we're not dealing with five-dimensional objects in a basic Euclidean geometric universe and given the essential premise that all mathematics is based on the hideously limiting notion that one plus one equals two, and are not, in fact, the same thing observed from different precepts, the very notion of five necessary truths is flawed. There are, of course only three: one, zero and the infinite. All else is tautology. Wouldn't you agree?
What do you mean by that "one", "zero", and "the infinite" are the only three truths?
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What is truth?
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As I see it infinity is neither one nor zero but both together and a lot more possibilities reaching to infinity that we cannot perceive. We are stuck with one and zero because we have to quantify everything , every event , because of being in a temporal state.
Doing ontology is a way of reaching beyond the temporal state. We can do this only by means of metaphor,e.g. see my 'beyond' and e.g. 'reaching to'.
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