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Re: Intuitionistic ignorance
Posted:
Feb 9, 2010 9:20 PM
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On Feb 6, 4:43 am, "victor_meldrew_...@yahoo.co.uk"
<victor_meldrew_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 6 Feb, 10:15, "Bent Arse Pod" <ostap_bender_1...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Are you saying that all functions f: R -> R are continuous? And that
> > Brouwer proved this? I would be willing pay big money to see a proof
> > of that.
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> Save your kopecks. Presumably your Russian schoolmasters and
> Harvard professors never taught you about intuitionism, and
> you have lacked the independence of mind and inquisitiveness to
> have learnt about it yourself.
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You carry a heavy burden of an inferiority complex, don't you?
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> Needless to say Brouwer's proof
> relies on intuitionistic logic and intuitionistic analysis,
> Brouwer's own peculiar reconstructions of those disciplines.
>
Thank you for the information, regardless of the infantile manner in
which it was presented.
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> Presumably your Russian schoolmasters and
> Harvard professors never taught you about intuitionism, and
> You have lacked the independence of mind and inquisitiveness to
> have learnt about it yourself.
> But you aren't missing much.
>
Thanks. Yes, few of my math professors and teachers wasted time on
inconsequential philosophical topics. Neither do I.
>
> Brouwer's eccentric doctrine
> has remained only of minority interest.
>
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