[Question] Who said something like “The fact that putting 2 apples next to 2 other apples leads to there being 4 apples there has nothing to do with the fact that 2 + 2 = 4”?

[Bezzi]

I suppose you are talking about this quote from the Sequences (A Priori):

James R. Newman said: “The fact that one apple added to one apple invariably gives two apples helps in the teaching of arithmetic, but has no bearing on the truth of the proposition that 1 + 1 = 2.”

[weathersystems]

Do you have anything else you remember about the statement? Where you heard it, when you heard it etc.