A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives. - Douglas Hofstadter

"It was a hundred years later that Einstein gave a theory (general relativity) which said that the geometry of the universe is determined by its content of matter, so that no one geometry is intrinsic to space itself. Thus to the question, "Which geometry is true?" nature gives an ambiguous answer not only in mathematics, but also in physics"

[M]eaning is part of an object to the extent that it acts upon intelligence in a predictable way.

Just as we believe in other peoples’ kidneys and brains (thanks almost entirely to arguments from analogy and authority),