Re: Where's respect? was Re: Corrective interpretation of real numbers

From: Robin Chapman (rjc_at_ivorynospamtower.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:34:38 +0000

examachine@gmail.com wrote:

> Robin Chapman wrote:
>> examachine@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'll give you a clue: it begins with W and ends in anker.
>
> I heard some of his arguments and I didn't find them impressive, but
> you don't have to call him that.

No, there are plenty of alternative words.

> There have been philosophers who held chairs at esteemed instituted who
> made sillier claims.

That's what being a philosopher is all about (but few are both
as egregiously daft and senseless as Muckenheim).

> You'd have to swear all the time if you wanted to
> talk about phil. of math.

I might just do that. 

-- 
Robin Chapman, www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/rjc.html
  "Elegance is an algorithm"
    Iain M. Banks, _The Algebraist_

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