«This story is told by the Cambridge analyst John Edensor Littlewood in his lovely little book A Mathematician's Miscellany:
Schoolmaster: 'Suppose x is the number of sheep in the problem.'
Schoolboy: 'But, Sir, suppose x is not the number of sheep.'
Littlewood says that he asked the Cambridge philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein whether this was a
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