@@> Intercept between Frank Masingill
@@> Keith Knapp on "Infinity"
BS> I don't know any more. It all gets fuzzy in my brain when we
BS> define infinity as an endless set, then define a set larger than
BS> that. How can you have something bigger than something that
BS> never ends? I don't actually believe it; I got most of this from
BS> a book called Infinity and 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.
FM> Very well said.
........yes! both question AND answer.....
@@>---Dave
P.S. Still working my way through "Gorgias"
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