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quaddition

quaddition noun: 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.

Noun

quaddition (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Questions about quaddition

What does quaddition mean?
Quaddition means 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.
What part of speech is quaddition?
Quaddition is a noun.

Words near quaddition in the dictionary

  1. Quaddhafi
  2. quaddie
  3. quaddies
  4. quadding
  5. quadding out
  6. quaddition
  7. quaddle
  8. quaddled
  9. quaddles
  10. quaddling
  11. Quade

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