Comic #7177: platonic-2
Description
Here is the transcription of the comic:
Panel 1:
- Top left text: "Platonism in mathematics is stupid. Numbers don’t 'exist'. Look, here are two fingers."
- Person on the right: "Now I hold up three and suddenly the 'two-ness' is gone. If it had real existence, where did it go?"
Panel 2:
- Person on the left: "That’s easy if you accept my theory of phobic platonism."
- Person on the right: "What?"
Panel 3:
- Person on the left: "The belief that little numbers are scared of big numbers."
- Person on the right: "Oh no, three showed up and two got scared!"
Panel 4:
- Person on the left: "Watch, here’s two fingers."
- Person on the right: "Now I’ll lower a finger and… okay, three is gone! You’re free to come back, two! Good boy!"
Panel 5:
- Person on the right: "Why… but… why would it be like that?"
- Person on the left: "Big numbers are out for revenge."
Panel 6:
- Person on the right: "Revenge? For what? Oh no no no—don’t say it—"
- Person on the left: "For when seven eight nine."
This comic presents a humorous dialogue about mathematics and the concept of numbers and their existence.