Aristotle wrote that spider has 6 legs. It took 2300 years to actually count the number and find that there are 8 legs. Lamarck did it in 18th century. So humans can gaslight themselves, and there could be some mathematical examples.
I find an analysis here (need translation), where it is said that “ephemeron” had 4 legs according to A, but that he personally never have seen the beast and now we even can’t say what it was. Later the story was transformed into the urban legend about the spider or fly with wrong number of legs.
Aristotle wrote that spider has 6 legs. It took 2300 years to actually count the number and find that there are 8 legs. Lamarck did it in 18th century. So humans can gaslight themselves, and there could be some mathematical examples.
Do you have a source for that?
Ups, it seems to be fake news (((
I find an analysis here (need translation), where it is said that “ephemeron” had 4 legs according to A, but that he personally never have seen the beast and now we even can’t say what it was. Later the story was transformed into the urban legend about the spider or fly with wrong number of legs.