I heard an ad on Launchcast, which i've been listening quite often... and in one ad, there is this ad where a girl poses a question that odd and even are a philospohical illusion... So a google search later I end up at
Odd and even: philosophical illusion.
It seems there were some other people who had the same thought as me... :)
nope.. if you read the link, you'll realise that the ad is a fraud... though i'm still curious.
ReplyDeleteHa, I've been hearing that ad for some time now and ended up here. After reading the link you posted it only confused me more (i didnt read all). But yea, it might of been some random question to make the girl look smart.
ReplyDeleteHa, I've been hearing that ad for some time now and ended up here. After reading the link you posted it only confused me more (i didnt read all). But yea, it might of been some random question to make the girl look smart.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's a philosophical illusion, but it generates a lot of good phliosophical discussions.
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's the whole point. :-)
Same story with me. Based on some other stuff I found from Thomas Aquinas, it may relate more to a discussion of the reality of our senses and association of perception.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that we as people have simply identified families of numbers that share certain properties. It is convenient to reference that concept by attaching a name to that category.
It's not unlike the concept of prime versus non-prime numbers or mammals versus birds versus reptiles, for that matter. If it were practical, we may have placed a label on numbers that are multiples of three.