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Re: Problem with Cantor's diagonal argument
Posted:
Feb 14, 2002 10:36 AM
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In article <cca46c2a.0202140707.71e86d9f@posting.google.com>,
aviles94@email.msn.com (Henry) writes:
>mareg@mimosa.csv.warwick.ac.uk () wrote in message news:<a4g5no$ova$1@wisteria.csv.warwick.ac.uk>...
>> I am sorry but my opinion remains unchanged. I honestly cannot understand
>> how anyone can spend an hour or so reading about a topic that has been
>> thought about and studied in detail for more than a hundred a years by some
>> of the keenest minds on the planet, and then assert that it is all rubbish.
>> That applies not just to mathematics, but to any serious object of study,
>> whether it is relativity, evolution, philosophy, art, music.
>>
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> Derek, if everyone would think like you do, then there would be no
>progress.
>For how many years people thought the earth was flat???!!! Is it a sin
>to question what's been "studied in detail"? I'm not saying that *I*
>will find any new theorems or fix any flaws in Cantor's views. If
>people become afraid to ask, question or criticize anything beacuse
>it's been accepted by most people then new ideas will never surface
>and progress will stall. Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings by using
>the word "absurd".
OK, I may have over-reacted to your use of "absurd", which I interpreted
as meaning "This stuff is all nonsense". If so I apologise.
But if you did mean to say "This is all nonsense" then I stand by what I
said! You need to really understand something properly before you can
sensibly start to question it.
Derek Holt.
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