Re: What is the Result from Invoking this Halt Function?

From: G. Frege (no_spam_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:42:02 +0200

On 11 Aug 2004 17:30:46 GMT, Chris Menzel <cmenzel@remove-this.tamu.edu>
wrote:

>
> Olcott claims to have solved it. So he's obviously wrong,
> hence obviously confused (or a pathologically brilliant
> troll).
>
Chris,

I'm sure he's in no way "confused", he's just a pathological case of a
troll. (But one who knows VERY WELL what he is doing, and HOW he has to
act...)

Consider this one:

>
> There are only two choices here:
>
> (1) I refuted Turing's proof
> (2) Turing's proof does not really perfectly apply to the actual
> Halting Problem.
>

This is just plain trolling: "There are only two choices here:"

(BTW: This figure is WELL KNOWN as "false alternative", so one might
conjecture that P. Olcott knows a little bit about rhetoric.)

        
F.