Re: Cantorian pseudomathematics

Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> { ... whatever he likes ... ]
>
> But all of his arguing simply boils down to the following:
>
> - Pi is fair and random AND Pi is not fair and random
>

What!? How could even you possibly claim this?

Can you show me a sense in which I claim, either directly or by
inference from from my definition, that Pi is random?

> - Sqrt(2) is fair and random AND Sqrt(2) is not fair and random
>

Can you show me a sense in which I claim, either directly or by
inference from my definition, that sqrt(2) is random?

> Yet Chas is claiming that he understands some about randomness.

Hans is claiming that "no" means "both no and yes".

> And he is especially verbose about his abilities w.r.t. logical
> reasoning.

I hoped an explicit example of a logical argument would help you
understand what is, after all, a simple application of a clear
definition.

> Yeah, sure. What more evidence do we need, huh ?
>

Evidence of what? That you can't apply a clear definition?

Cheers - Chas

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