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echo: philos
to: KEITH KNAPP
from: FRANK MASINGILL
date: 1998-04-13 04:44:00
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 can
 BS> you have something bigger than something that never ends?  I don't
 BS> actually believe it; I got most of this from a book called Infinity and
 BS> the Mind by Rudy Rucker.
 KK> If you push any logical system far enough, it ends in contradiction,
 KK> paradox, or fuzziness.  It may be that there is some rational solution
 KK> within that system, but it's also true that first-rate thinking often
 KK> requires you to relax and learn to live with the fuzziness of human
 KK> models.
   Very well said.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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