Re: .999... ?= 1

From: Rainer Rosenthal (r.rosenthal_at_web.de)
Date: 06/12/04 

Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:43:41 +0200

"Lothar Brendel" wrote
> Rainer Rosenthal wrote:
> > "Lothar Brendel" wrote
> > > Virgil wrote
> > > > And if your mysticism is representative of
> > > > what sciencists are thinking now, science
> > > > has no solid ground.
> > >
> > > Surely you are joking, Mr Virgil. You cannot
> > > possibly take Eckard's jabbering for being
> > > representative of nowaday's science.
> >
> > Surely you are missing something, Mr. Brendel.
> > When you hear someone say "if X then Y", you
> > shouldn't accuse him of having said "Y".
>
> Yes, and in fact I didn't do that.
>
> I remarked that he cannot be serious about considering
> X being true.
>

Let's see:
with X = "mysticism is representative"
and Y = "science has no solid ground":

V = if X then Y

is Virgils proposition, which you opposed to.
You tried to prove V false by proving X false.
This "misses something".

Rainer Rosenthal
r.rosenthal@web.de