Quaddition
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quaddition is a noun meaning (philosophy) An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Meaning
(philosophy) An operation that is the same as addition unless one of its operands is 57 or greater, in which case it always yields 5; used by Saul Kripke in an argument against Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include addition, additiveness, digitaddition, subadditivity, addend, additivity.
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