Re: Another Inconvenient Truth

On 20 aug, 17:09, William Hughes <wpihug...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 20, 10:47 am, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

William Hughes wrote:
On Aug 20, 9:46 am, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Snipping enough relevance of a poster will give others the impression
that you are probably right. I'm no longer interested in this kind of
debating "art".

When you can't think of a reply,
you change the subject. In this case by accusing me
of unfair debating tactics. Interestingly, though you
accuse me of snipping a relevant part, you do not indicate
what I snipped, nor why you think it was relevant.

The only part I snipped was

"The flaw in the "Balls in a Vase" question
is that "noon" doesn't exist."

Ah, you know _very well_ what you snipped.

And you still have given no indication why you think it
was relevant.

While this might explain why you think this is a "nonsense question",
it does not explain why think you know the correct answer.

I only know that the question is incorrect. I do not know and I can not
know the correct answer to an incorrect question.

So, your repeated assertions that the answer "the vase is
empty at noon" is wrong because the obvious correct
answer is "the vase contains an infinte number of balls at
noon", are based on something you "do not know" and "can not
know".

It's simply undefined.

So your repeated assertion that the answer "the vase is
empty at noon" is wrong is simply noise.

(I have only an answer for "time stamps before noon".)

So you feel that you can make assertions about
what happens at noon, even though you only have
answers for "time stamps before noon".

Answer me. What is the value of f(x) = 1/x at x = 0 ?

Why do you have trouble with the fact that well posed answers
to ill posed questions do not exist? And that any claim to have
an answer therefore is wrong. I've never said that the vase has
infinitely many balls at noon. I don't even know what infinity
actually is. (Potentially is another matter ..)

Han de Bruijn

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