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The Law of Identity does not enter into arithmetic; so, 0=0 and 1=1 merely state the obvious. But in no sense is 0=0 equivalent to 1=1, except in logical form, because 0 and 1 are different values. The proposition (0=0)=1 has no intelligible meaning. 0=0 is like saying 0 isn't equal to not-0, which...