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echo: philos
to: KEITH KNAPP
from: BOB SEWELL
date: 1998-04-18 16:48:00
subject: Infinity

 In a deposition submitted under oath, Keith Knapp said:
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.
 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
 KK> solution within that system, but it's also true that first-rate
 KK> thinking often requires you to relax and learn to live with the
 KK> fuzziness of human models.
    I can do that, but sometimes it makes my brain hurt.  ;^)
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