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AnswersInGenitals
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Message 11 of 56 (390482)
03-20-2007 3:42 PM
Reply to: Message 6 by tudwell
03-19-2007 7:22 PM


Proof by reductio ad absurdum.
One can demonstrate that 0.999... = 1.0 by a reductio ad absurdum argument (i. e., by showing that the opposite statement, that they are not equal, leads to a contradiction). If 0.999... is not equal to 1.0, then there must be some number that is in between them in value, that is greater than 0.999... but less than 1.0 (one such number is (0.999... + 1.0)/2, and in fact there would be infinite such numbers). Thus, the decimal expansion of this number must have some digit that differs from the digit in the corresponding place in 0.999..., i. e., a digit other than 9 in some place where 0.999... has a 9. But this would make the 'in-between' number smaller than 0.999... when in fact it must be larger than 0.999...(qed).
We have demonstrated that your friend's suggestion is not only absurd, but is vile and disgusting and your friend should be ostracized from society.

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Message 29 of 56 (391389)
03-24-2007 8:47 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by AZPaul3
03-24-2007 6:42 PM


Adams For PM (He's more lively than Blair.)
...were all figments of Adam's imagination.
If it turns out that infinity is just a figment of our imagination, i. e., the word is something like 'slithy tobes', it sounds like something that might exist but we're not sure and we have to get on with the poem, then Adams might just have (had) the best grasp of infinity of anyone.

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Message 30 of 56 (391390)
03-24-2007 8:51 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by Brad McFall
03-23-2007 7:35 PM


Re: Adams Fun With Logic (&B McF's fun with illogic)
Brad McFall writes:
Cantor was suggesting relations to Opticks actually and Soma is a long way from that. But no one has taken the possiblity beyond his barely cognizable artistic judgment that a painting (think- Writing on Infinity) and a symphony (think harmony of nature's laws) may NOT have the same infinity abstracted from them. Of course Frege was confident that no one would grab some sand and determine a transfinite thought with it but then again no one has gone beyond Russell's shoehotel of logic into one that with Kant could exist and which biologists may find perceptive for its current difference of geneotype and phenotype.
You do realize don't you that you are quite incorrect about this?

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Message 32 of 56 (391538)
03-25-2007 6:16 PM
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03-25-2007 12:11 PM


Re: Adams Fun With Logic (&B McF's fun with illogic)
Edited by AZPaul3, 03-25-2007 09:21 AM: Well, see, when one is in a hurry one has a tendency to leave out words that should be in the sentence. Sometimes ones fingers are incapable of keeping up with ones thought processes and thus compensates by skipping certain words, like, the subject of the sentence. This is not conducive to proper communication and, thus, a correction was in order.
We see laid bare here the results of the extreme emotional stress caused by your deigning to question my ability to decipher McFall scriptures. Exactly what were those little fingers so busy with while you were composing your post? If you also wish to master the ability to understand McFall missives, you merely need to read all of his previous 3125 posts without interruption. This will, of course, leave you unable to comprehend anything else in life, but you also won't care. As the great but taciturn Geurdieff so wisely said, "...". You will also notice that I don't actually read posts on this forum; I just read the edits. This allows me to keep up with the latest thoughts without the nuisance of actually thinking them.
Edited by AnswersInGenitals, : Reason for edit: Because the voices told me to.

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Message 33 of 56 (391539)
03-25-2007 6:22 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by AZPaul3
03-25-2007 12:11 PM


Re: Adams Fun With Logic (&B McF's fun with illogic)
AZPaul3 writes:
Now, Answers...
Actually, my friends call me 'Genitals'. Or something along those lines. Maybe they're not my friends.

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Message 35 of 56 (391633)
03-26-2007 3:38 PM
Reply to: Message 34 by Brad McFall
03-26-2007 9:54 AM


Ins and outs of McFall posts.
Yes, I do have a problem with leaving out words
In truth, Brad, the problem people have with comprehending your posts is not due to the words you leave out. It is due to the words you leave in.

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