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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 January 2016 01:19:54PM *  0 points [-]

I learned math with the Peano axioms and we considered the symbol 2 to refer to the 1+1, 3 to (1+1)+1 and so on. However even if you consider it to be more complicated it still stays an analytic statement and isn't a synthetic one.

If you define 2 differently what's the definition of 2?

Comment author: mcallisterjp 11 January 2016 06:52:10PM *  0 points [-]

In type theory and some fields of logic, 2 is usually defined as (λf.λx.f (f x)); essentially, the concept of doing something twice.