The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't by Cheng Eugenia

Author:Cheng, Eugenia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile
Published: 2018-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

This is what I call a Battenberg cake structure, as it resembles a Battenberg cake:2

This is a mathematical structure that pops up all over the place. It happens if we think about addition of odd and even numbers:

or multiplication of positive and negative numbers:

I think it also comes up if we think about tolerance and intolerance:

• if you’re tolerant of tolerance then that is tolerance

• if you’re intolerant of tolerance that is intolerance

• if you’re tolerant of intolerance that is intolerance

• if you’re intolerant of intolerance that is tolerance.

This fits in a Battenberg grid like this:

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