Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert Wagner (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:10:59 -0600

Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> Albert Wagner wrote:
>
>>I consider infinity to be undefined and undefinable.
>
>
> Or, translated in English "I consider apples to be oranges and
> pears."

Nope. Not a proper translation. Is English your second language?

> Enough of this blabbering.

Yes, indeed. I cannot get a mathematiker to define 'infinity' in
such a way that mathematical operations can be performed upon it. 

-- 
"I know that most men, including those at ease with
problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom
accept even the simplest and most obvious truth
if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining
to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others,
and which they have woven, thread by thread,
into the fabric of their lives." -
	-- Tolstoy

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