Re: Mathematical vulgarities of sets


Chris Menzel wrote:

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:15:25 +0000 (UTC), James Dolan <jdolan@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
in article <slrneqqmn8.31hh.cmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
chris menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|On 15 Jan 2007 20:12:29 -0800, Charlie-Boo <shymathguy@xxxxxxxxx>
|said:
|> ...
|> The "vulgarity of the empty set" is the fact that it's impossible
|> to define.
|
|If you bothered to study the theory of definitions, you'd realize
|that that's remarkably silly thing to say. (First clue: Definitions
|are relative to theories.) Why is it you choose to put your
|ignorance on display rather than actually to learn basic mathematical
|logic and set theory? You're obviously smart enough to take it in.
|Your behavior is, well, crazy.
|
|Obviously, I never cease to be amazed by you.

let me get this straight... you read the first post in this thread,

Actually, I didn't; I only noticed the remark in question in a response
Moeblee (IIRC) had made to C-B, and which C-B had made to the original
poster. In contrast to the incomprehensibly and unsalvageably loony
contributions of the OP, C-B's are intelligent enough to be
interestingly wrong, and indicate that he himself is smart enough, with
a little education, to understand *why* they are wrong. I keep hoping
that by being repeatedly shamed he'll be moved to crack a textbook
rather than to waste his time defending his misconceptions.

and you read the second post, and then you decided to comment on the
silliness of the _second_ post???

Again, it was the avoidable ignorance driving the remark in question,
rather than its silliness, that motivated the reply.

What was silly about it? You can't say can you.

.

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