“A western anthropologist is told by a Voohooni that 2 + 2 = 5. The anthropologist asks him how he knows this. The tribesman says, “By counting, of course. First I tie two knots in a cord. Then I tie two knots in another cord. When I join the two cords together, I have five knots.”
Extracted from Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar… Understanding philosophy through jokes by Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein
