Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why?
by snovv_crash on Sunday January 08, 2017 @04:27AM
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Stop thinking literally, and instead think of the concept. A king is a male monarch. So remove the male, and you have monarch. Add female and you have female monarch = queen.
Similarly with woman + person, the concept of woman is femininity. It makes sense if you think in terms of concepts.
>That doesn't follow in any addition sense. A king minus man can just be a dead king. Or a eunuch. Or, a lonely king.
Yes, and some of those meanings can be closer to the common understanding of reality or the weight of each notion or its probability than others.
Which is also why we can solve riddles and don't get lost in their infinite similar possibilities.
Similarly, add a woman to a person, and you just have two people. One being a woman.
I get that there is an answer that seems fun... But there is not a deep meaning to the math.
This is like the games where "send + more = money". Fun. But is there really something illuminating?