Not quite a parallel, but it brought this to mind:
"There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician.
And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).
And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.'
An aside.
You ever consider who decided that the first number was zero?
Or was it one? What is one?
Why does two follow one?
Why not three or four?
Three and four do follow one, but two cut in line.
Why? Because one and one is two.
Oh boy. Here we go again with the math.
Who decided the order?
Why is two labelled "two"? Why not "one and one"?
Is two non-binary?
Not quite a parallel, but it brought this to mind:
"There are three men on a train. One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician.
And they have just crossed the border into Scotland (I don't know why they are going to Scotland) and they see a brown cow standing in a field from the window of the train (and the cow is standing parallel to the train).
And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, 'No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.'
u/#mikeyep
An aside.
You ever consider who decided that the first number was zero? Or was it one? What is one? Why does two follow one? Why not three or four? Three and four do follow one, but two cut in line. Why? Because one and one is two. Oh boy. Here we go again with the math. Who decided the order? Why is two labelled "two"? Why not "one and one"?
Is two non-binary?
Must stop.
None of them said five tho.