Re: Calculus vs. Non-contradiction?

On Jun 9, 5:32 pm, OccasionalFlyer <klit...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
  I have no background in Calculus but I am convinced that the
principle in logic of Non-Contradiction to be correct.  A and Not-A
cannot both be true simultaneously.  However, I was recently told by
someone, who is reading some very big, philosophical book on
mathematics, that the proposition of calculus disproves the Law of Non-
Contradiction in logic. Can someone fill me in on how this would
work?  Thanks.

Calculus does not disprove the law of non-contradiction.

Perhaps you could tell us which book this person is reading. It's not
Berkeley's "Discourse addressed to an infidel mathematician", is it?
That was written before calculus had rigorous foundations.
.

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