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echo: philos
to: BOB SEWELL
from: KEITH KNAPP
date: 1998-04-12 20:35:00
subject: Infinity

BS>    I don't know any more.  It all gets fuzzy in my brain when we define
BS> infinity as an endless set, then define a set larger than that.  How
BS> can you have something bigger than something that never ends?  I
BS> don't actually believe it; I got most of this from a book called
BS> Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker.
If you push any logical system far enough, it ends in contradiction,
paradox, or fuzziness.  It may be that there is some rational
solution within that system, but it's also true that first-rate
thinking often requires you to relax and learn to live with the
fuzziness of human models.
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