Re: WELL WHICH IS IT... ?

From: george (greeneg_at_cs.unc.edu)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: 20 Jan 2005 20:08:17 -0800

|-|erc wrote:
> > "If you have the list of computables,
> > a random real number can be on it to
> > an infinite number of digits, and yet
> > not be on the list"
> > True / False / Other
>
> As stated: false.

Not according to you.
The actual answer, which is that it is "on, to any
finite number of digits", is one that you have been
at pains to deny. UNTIL YOU ACCEPT *that* answer,
you DON'T HAVE ANY coherent answer to this question,
sothe answer must be Other.

> The real either is or is not on the list, but not both.
THAT is a TAUTOLOGY, DUMBASS.
In other words, THAT DOESN'T MEAN ***.
Your basic problem is that "to be on the list to n digits",
where n is an ordinal, doesn't mean *** EITHER.

> > "If you have the list of computables,
> > a random real number can be on it to
> > an infinite number of digits, and yet not be on
> > the list" True / False / Other
>
> True

JEEZUS, dip***: THIS IS EXACTLY THE SAME QUESTION
as the one you just answered "false" to above!!

> > as phrased.

Idiot: NO question has the property that its truth
value depends on how it "is phrased". If it has 2
different answers then THAT is because it is 2 DIFFERENT
QUESTIONS, NOT 2 different "phrasings" of the SAME question!

Why don't you just go to hell NOW and spare the higher
authorities the trouble of sending you later?