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Wade A. Tisthammer
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Date Posted: 02/16/04 8:07pm
In reply to:
Damoclese
's message, "Practicality" on 02/15/04 7:33pm
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>>No, day 1461 is 1461 days ago. The numbering scheme
>>we're using is to count backwards. Day 365 is 365
>>days ago, year 1 is 1 year ago etc. Thus day 1461 is
>>4 years ago. So if last year (year 1) he wrote about
>>day 1458, then 4 years ago (year 4) he was writing
>>about day 1461 (remember, he writes about one day
>>after the next, and each year he writes about a day).
>>But that day was in year 4, he is at a point where he
>>writes all the days of his past life. He thus
>>finishes his autobiography, which is absurd.
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>Okay, let's use some real values here. For every year
>he writes about a day. Let's assume this starts in
>year one for simplicities sake. At year one, he writes
>about day 1 since his ordeal started. Year 2 day 2 and
>so on. In the year 1461 he writes about day 1461 since
>all this started. In this numbering scheme, whatever
>year he is on is the number of the day he is writing
>about. It doesn't matter if one moves forward or
>backwards in this scenario, as he never, ever gets
>done.
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>Please explain to me why this interpretation is wrong
Okay, it’s wrong in the sense that it just can’t apply to an infinite past, where there is no year where he starts at. Hence we count backwards.
I agree that Shandy would never finish if he had been writing from eternity past. But if this is true, Shandy is infinitely far behind, and we get the paradox I described earlier.
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