But 1+1 *isn't* always 2. Numbers are just shapes. (Not unlike the Platonic solids) While I'm making meatballs, I take one meatball, I add it to another meatball, I get one bigger meatball.
1+1=1.
Oh, but it's a bigger meatball, right? OK. If I add 1 meatball diameter to 1 meatball diameter, how big is my meatball? Two meatball diameters? Nope. Again, 1+1 is not 2. Or 1.
In fact, you could *pulverize* this meatball, and sift through every atom, but you would never find *this:*
1+1=3. Meatball 1, Meatball 2, and the third meatball that came about when I mushed them together.
As we say in my kitchen, 'Thatsa spicy meatballa!'
They're numbers, but 'Absolute Truth?' Not convinced.