Re: Another Inconvenient Truth

In article <ccd39$46cad9ac$82a1e228$446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBruijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

William Hughes wrote:

On Aug 21, 4:11 am, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

William Hughes wrote:

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You have been consistent and vocal in saying that
the correct answer cannot be zero because the limiting value
of the number of balls in the vase is unbounded.

Yes. That's what I have said, more or less. Now what?

You have no theory that addresses the question, yet
your comment is not only that question is meaningless,
but also that the answer zero cannot be correct.
Why do you maintain that the answer zero
cannot be correct.

Because nature does not jump (natura non facit saltus: Leibniz) from
infinity to nothing.

Who said that it was anything like nature? As far as that goes one
cannot insert balls into the vase instantaneously, nor create a vase
which will hold an unbounded number of balls of equal positive radius.

To reject a problem because the problem has no exact physical equivalent
is to reject almost all mathematics.

Which may allow one to do physics, but bars one from being a
mathematician.
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