Not if they talked to a competent topologist.
Please. There's no topology in a flatland...it's FLAT. If it had topology, it would be three-dimensional, wouldn't it?
If you cheat in solving dilemmas, and subsequently convince yourself that you have solved it, where does that leave you? Perhaps in the same place as scientists who realize there must be additional mass at the outer layers of the galaxy, but cannot account for it?
Judging by the answers I get on these threads to difficult questions, I am starting to formulate a theory that the most intellectual-seeming among us are those who invent the most clever ways of avoiding the questions.
Please. Of course there's topology in flatland. Having three dimensions have nothing to do with it. Read Abbot's "Flatland" available from Dover. Topology deals with transformation of spaces. We live in a three-dimensional space but we deal with much higher dimensional things regularly.
Please do not accuse me of avoiding questions just because you don't like the answers. If you didn't want to hear the answer, don't ask.