Re: Calculus XOR Probability

cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:
Tony Orlow wrote:
cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:

These facts can be deduced from the /definition/ of "limit of a
sequence of sets of points" that I gave previously.

I don''t know what you mean by "a line of some sort, with a real
measure of length", so I can't otherwise comment on whether or not your
statement is correct or incorrect; it is meaningless to me,
mathematically speaking; although as regular English usage it seems
contradicted by the example I just gave.

A disk contradicts a line? Dear god, now you sound like Lester!


So you propose that the statement "a disk is a line of some sort, with
a real measure of length" is /not/ contradicted by your definition of
"a line of some sort, with a real measure of length", when we take this
definition as being the regular English usage of that phrase?

Cheers - Chas



It's not the same thing. If I call your dog an elephant, have I proven an
inconsistency in your dog? You offer a disk as an example of a line, and that's
supposed to contradict anything I said about lines? If the disk fit the
definition of a line I gave, the definition would need refinement. As it
stands, I don't know what your point is.
--
Smiles,

Tony
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