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echo: philos
to: WILLIAM ELLIOT
from: TODD HENSON
date: 1998-01-30 02:51:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

 
 TH> The universe, by its nature, is necessarily finite. I explained this
 TH> to you before with the analogy of the half-infinite line, which you
 TH> never addressed, and couldn't counter.
 WE> But a half infinite line [0, infinity) is of infinite length.  So is
No, its a logical contradiction. Either it's infinite or its not. How many
half pregnant women have you met? How many things only half exist. What
you are proposing ignores common sense, and ignores everything said.
 WE> the mirror image (-infinity, 0] which could be an universe that alway
 WE> was but comes to an end.  Negative integers a simple example: ...
 WE> -n-1, -n, ... ,-2, -1, 0 while the more accustomed 0, 1, 2, ... ,n
 WE> ,n+1, ... positive integers. 
... Blue Wave - World Tour - 1998
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