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echo: philos
to: FRANK MASINGILL
from: DAVID MARTORANA
date: 1998-04-13 21:47:00
subject: `Infinity`

 @@> 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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