Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:46:20 GMT

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:06:59 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>
>
>Lester Zick wrote:
>
>> Well, consistency is defined by the absence of contradiction, Tony.
>> It's the result of contradiction and not an alternative. It can't
>> contradict itself because the absence of something can't contradict
>> anything any more than the addition of zero can change magnitude.
>
>You have not mathematically demonstrated a contradiction. You have
>stated some things that flow from a lack of understanding. Ever since
>set theory was fixed up early in the twentieth century, no contradicts
>have been demonstrated. Which does not mean there are none. But YOU have
>no demonstrated a contradiction. In fact you have not demonstrated
>(proven) anything.
>
>Your problem is that you insist on apply a measure to individual points.
>In fact measures are define on cartesian products of interval, not on
>individual points. The measure of a single point is 0. The measure of an
>interval in which a lot of points live is greater than 0. We dervice the
>measures from the differences of the end points.
>
>Mathematicians have been using measure theory for over 100 years and it
>provides everything needed for applications.

And I'm sure it provides everything needed for your gratification too,
Bob. I'm not sure what you're going on about here. My observation to
Tony appears totally unrelated to anything you say here. So if you
have something to complain about, I suggest you spell out what you are
referring to.

Regards - Lester

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