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echo: philos
to: TODD HENSON
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-01-31 03:29:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

 >>> Todd Henson on "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
 TH> No, its a logical contradiction. Either it's infinite or its not.
It is of infinite length.  Technically mathematicians call the interval from 
0 to infinity a ray.
... Alas, immortality is not biodegradable.
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