Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert Wagner (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/17/05


Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:55:04 -0600

robert j. kolker wrote:
>
> Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
>
>> You didn't answer the question. Is it true that there are an infinite
>> number of natural numbers for every natural number? Is the conclusion
>> correct? Or, is there exactly one natural number for every natural
>> number?
>
> Yes. It is true. I gave a proof.

Oh, come on, Bob. A mathematical proof has nothing whatsoever to
do with truth.

-- 
"I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based
on the field concept, i. e., on continuous structures. In that
case nothing remains of my entire castle in the air,
gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics."
	-- Albert Einstein in a 1954 letter to Michele Besso.


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