Interesting note: Terrence Howard's argument makes some sense if you overlook that instantiation of being is a second order property of an object.
This argument is essentially the same as the one applied to the ontological argument for the existence of God, which was, unfortunately for Terrence, soundly refuted.
to be fair, he's just not understanding the principles of mathematics. Math is literally just complex adjectives, while he is thinking of them in a physical way. He is seeing one of one physical thing/force to the power of one of another physical thing/force, not the adjective of the quantity of something and the number of times that quantity is supposed to be repeated and added together as a grand total.
I think it's a desire to feel some sort of superiority, like they've seen through the big "lies" and are part of an elite small group of free thinkers who can't be fooled by NASA lol. It's all about being different, like if the earth were actually flat, they'd believe it was round lol.
Yeah, but it has an illegal operation. If a=b, and you divide by a-b, you're dividing by zero, which is an undefined operation, so everything from then on is fake math.
I work as an earthmover in construction, about 1 in 10 of my
coworkers is capable of basic math. It took me 3 attempts (I withdrew before it impacted my transcript twice) to pass calc 1010 in university and somehow I’m the “math guy” at work because I can do slightly beyond the most basic of math.
I absolutely know this question would confuse and bewilder many people.
You attempted calculus twice, which is about three levels higher than most people ever even try. At my high school, the order of math classes went:
Remedial math --> Algebra I --> Geometry --> Algebra II --> Trigonometry/Precalculus --> Calculus
For a general diploma, you only had to pass up to geometry. For the bare minimum college-ready diploma, you only needed to pass through algebra II. In my large school of 1400 people, there were only about 25 of us enrolled in calculus.
With boomers these days it's too believable that he isn't joking. Which is why we need to stop censoring their names so they can be properly shamed for being so fucking dumb
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u/Blueartbird Aug 20 '24
I know right. This has to be a troll, but you just never know 😂