Re: Idle Thoughts

"Jarle Stabell" wrote
>
> (This proof-technique, starting with the opposite assumption
> and trying to end up with something known to be false, is
> called reductio ad absurdum)

And doesn't work in areas like infinity. For example, if we can conceive of
infinity + 1, then does that prove that infinity isn't infinite? Challenging
someone to find a workable value for the delta is simply inviting them into
a mathematical trap, like challenging them to find a workable value for
infinity itself as a way of proving that infinity can't exist.

bobD


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