In the pamphlet Napoléon le Petit, Victor Hugo wrote that if you get a hund
In the pamphlet Napoléon le Petit, Victor Hugo wrote that if you get a hundred million people to claim that this statement is true, "you will not have advanced a step." The narrator of Notes from Underground says that this statement "is sometimes a very charming thing," while a statement contradicting it "is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting." In another novel, O'Brien tortures another character into accepting the truth of this statement in Room 101. For 10 points, name this mathematical statement which Winston Smith eventually convinces himself is true in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
In the pamphlet Napoléon le Petit, Victor Hugo wrote that if you get a hundred million people to claim that this statement is true, "you will not have advanced a step."
2 + 2 = 5 [accept equivalents]