On May 31, 10:42 pm, Eric Schmidt <eric41...@comcast.net> wrote: > chaja...@mail.com wrote: > >>Nothing. It is perfectly clear that you have strung a lot > >>of impressive sounding terms together, without any meaning whatsoever. > >>You don't even make it to "not even wrong". > > >> - William Hughes > > > Lack of understanding is a very convenient way to dismiss out-of-hand. > > I hight doubt T.H.Ray came to our board spew pure meaningless, and > > your attempts to devalidate any concept that lives within him that > > have elements of truth only show that you never be able to be brought > > to these truths from a source outside of you that does not speak to > > you in terms you already understand. If you already understood all, > > there would be no need to communicate with you. > > Actually, he does understand the terms, which is why he can see that > there are not being used in any coherent or correct way. Tell me, what > does "things that are not differentiable are identical" mean? > > -- > Eric Schmidt > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
Well it would seem that in decimal notation, 0.999... is not differentiable from one, yet I would pose they are not equal. People use the fact that decimal notation cannot express an intervening concept of metric distance (forgive the use of the word metric) to say 0.999... must equal 1.