Re: Another Inconvenient Truth

William Hughes wrote:

On Aug 22, 8:15 am, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

William Hughes wrote:

On Aug 22, 3:46 am, Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Virgil wrote:

In article <111b1$46ca9e1a$82a1e228$25...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Han de Bruijn <Han.deBru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

William Hughes wrote:

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?

Now you must prove that that "limit" is relevant to the number of balls
at noon.

I.e., that there is some sort of "continuity" at noon implied by the
description of the gedankenexperiment.

Considering the discontinuities before noon, that is hardly justifiable.

http://hdebruijn.soo.dto.tudelft.nl/jaar2006/ballen.jpg

A picture says more than a thousand words ..

You claim that noon does not exist, but the graph has to be continuous
at noon. Have you moved to Orlovia?

No, but the universe _explodes_ near noon. And explosions are not zero.

What universe? The problem has nothing to do with
the physical universe.

That's what _you_ think. And the unlimited freedom of mathematics allows
_me_ to think differently.

Han de Bruijn

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