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Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality

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Jazzns
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01-28-2010 11:01 AM 		Reply to: Message 9 by nwr
01-27-2010 3:18 PM

Re: Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality
My constructivist friend denies the existence of the limit implied by .9999~, but accepts .9999~ symbollically as a representation of 1.
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Interesting, would your friend also deny the correctness of the discipline of calculus?
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Jazzns
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01-28-2010 4:43 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by nwr
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Re: Math's Arbitrary Non-Necessary Necessarily-Disconnected Conventional Link to Reality
Sorry, hit the wrong reply button.
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