For example
1 egg add 1 eggs results in 2 eggs
1 apple add 1 apple results in 2 apples
1 bliken add 1 bliken results in 2 blikens.
Even if we do not know what a bliken is adding one of them to another one of them results in two of them. (Don’t bother to look in a dictionary for a bliken I made it up.)
However adding 1 egg and 1 apple can only be done in a list, as in a shopping list.
In the same way 1 bliken and 1 grifiat also cannot be added directly as blikens and grifiats are different.
The must be listed
1 bliken
1 grifiat
So how about 1 Four add 1 Three?
Four and Three are different objects so can we add them?
Yes. They have something in common. What do they have in common? Ones.
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or more lazily (and mathematicians can be lazy)
Four add Three results in Seven or even more lazily
4 + 3 = 7
Do mathematicians go through all that detailed precision to arrive at 4 + 3 = 7? The answer yes but even more so, they start with Nothing rather than One.
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