On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:54:27 -0500, Cliff wrote:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:13:48 -0800, Robert Sturgeon
wrote:

On 19 Dec 2004 16:20:09 GMT,
(Frank White) wrote:

(snips)

All problems have an answer that is simple, easy, obvious...
and completely, totally, horrifically wrong.

That is not true. 2+2 is a problem with a "simple, easy,
obvious" answer that is not "completely, totally,
horrifically wrong."

Do you have any foorp of this?

Ever read "Principia Mathematica"?
Take a Fundamentals of Mathematics class?

Start out slow with 1+1 ......

http://www.idt.mdh.se/~icc/1+1=2.htm is seemingly wrong (after
362 pages getting there) G.

Then see (for some background):
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/newton...th/MATH049.HTM
And http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Logic.html

IIRC Wittgenstein found the fatal flaw ..... and I used to
understand it sigh.

Now, about your "simple, easy, obvious" answer ..... ?

VBG
--
Cliff