1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2. If you have 1 half plus 1 half, you get 1. If you have 1 quarter plus 1 quarter, you have 1 half.

Yes, I see what you mean;- one kwj503 + one kwj503 = one half wit.

Because of the way we define those numbers. It is that simple.

Certain things in life are a given...

Higher taxes + increased regulations on business = enemic GDP growth with swollen welfare roles and record numbers on food stamps.

Lower taxes + reduced regulations = higher GDP growth with record low unemployment for African Americans and all other Americans.

The Left is made up of people who contantly try to make 1 + 1 = 3.

Socialism has been shown over and over to create dead economies and increased Government dependence.

Ask yourself why we STILL have so many people on the Left ascribing to such a flawed system? Socialism creates more people in poverty rather than lifting them out of poverty.

The past eight years of an extreme Liberal Democrat Party has proven this given as clearly as ever before.

Trump is proving the benefits of capitalism and lower taxes as clearly as 1 + 1 = 2.

Hey DumbAss are you good with a checkbook ? Simple math hard for you to comprehend?

http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/51551.html

...because the state of one unit and another one unit, added together, is defined by humans as two units.

1 and 2 are just numerical representations of countable values. The numerical result after adding one countable unit of something with another one countable unit of the same kind is denoted as 2. So 1 + 1 = 2.

Let's not forget that 1+1 doesn't always result in 2. In the binary system, 1 + 1 equals to 10. No matter what, they are just human-defined representations of values.

I don't really understand the question, or why there is a need for it. One is the number denoting a single amount of something. Two is the number denoting two single amounts of something together.

Well, to lower primates, you won't understand the complexity and magnitude of this question. To intelligent minds, you can see and understand how this question is actually a very hard one to define.

Thanks for the replies :)

There is only ONE, and none like that ONE.

The Supreme and Ultimate Reality is God, The Singularity.

People say comparing apples to oranges is out there, but what about apples to apples?

No two apples are the same... So if one apple doesn't equal another apples, do we really have two apples? Does that means that one doesn't equal one? Maybe one plus one doesn't really equal two?

The trick here is that we deal with representations of reality rather than reality itself. That is how math works. Only then can anything equal something else. Even though apples are created things.

In nature, the closer you scrutinize the less the grids we place around reality seem to actually mesh with reality. There is a creative process that goes into all of our perception, conscious, unconscious, and what is innate based on how our senses take away from reality as a whole.

Why does one plus one equal two?

For the sake of utility.

Utility is not the determiner of truth, though many people seem to believe it is.