Well, at least in this post, you *try* to define things such that you'd be right. Although normally considered a rhetorical fallacy, programming into the premises the conclusion you seek is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in math. As long as you actually *do* it ... make the definitions, then your assumed conclusions will be just fine.
On 7/23/20 9:47 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > In R2 a point is an ordered pair. How can (1,1) be decomposed into other > points. > > I am correct, goshdarnit. When I was about 9 I said that word in the > presence of my Southern Baptist grandfather. He said, "Say Goddamit. It > means the same thing and it sounds better." > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:34 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <geprope...@gmail.com > <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Ha! I can't pardon the tone because the authority is simply wrong. > Besides, asserting such things with no justification is not merely a tone. > > On 7/23/20 9:28 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > points are indivisible. Pardon the tone of authority. > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:12 AM uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <geprope...@gmail.com > <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com> <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com > <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>>> wrote: > > > > But a *relevant* question for me is whether or not you can divide > an infinitesimal point into an infinity of points? My *guess* is that a point > divided an infinite number of times is like a power set and is a greater > infinity than the point, itself. But I still haven't read a book I bought > awhile ago: "Applied Nonstandard Analysis". It's a bit dense. 8^D I've read > many of the English intros and such and a few of the proofs ... but Whew! > It's almost exactly like Alexandrov's "Combinatorial Topology". I've given up > and just cherry-pick sections that I only kindasorta understand by analogy at > this point. At least with math papers I don't feel like such a failure when I > give up on reading it ... another way papers are better than books! -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
