Re: Request for Review of ZF Inconsistency Proof

On 2007-06-06, in sci.logic, MoeBlee wrote:
Oh come now [that's one I'm borrowing from you know who], I didn't say
it's evil.

Doing as Scott did is, if not evil, at least somewhat silly. I'm afraid he
has revealed himself as a second class mathematical crank. As you reminded
me, he's had some interesting things to say about Gödel, incompleteness,
inconsistency, in the past, too.

In the case of the most entrenched cranks, such posts to them are
pointless if the expectation is that of getting through to them. But
one may have one's own reasons for such seemingly unrewarding posting
to cranks, which - as with any such endeavor, habit, or vice - are not
necessarily so very rational in terms of expectations of particular
outcomes.

True. Hanging out on Usenet is in itself a somewhat queer hobby.

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