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Subject: Succinct replies. Author: Wade A. Tisthammer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 04/ 7/04 11:48pm In reply to: Damoclese 's message, "terse answers" on 04/ 6/04 7:41pm >>>You should be thinking about limits and what limits >>>definitionally represent for this conversation. >> >>Indeed, that's what I think Damoclese was thinking >>about. For instance, the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + >>1/16 ... eventually approaches a finite number (2) as >>we go to infinity. Nonetheless, this has no relevance >>to any of the premises in the Tristram Shandy >argument, > >Because adding years successively doesn't necessarily >yield an infinity. Hence, if Shandy were writing for >an infinte amount of time, there is nothing to prevent >him from coverging on done without ever actually >getting done at least as regards calculus. I don't see how that would apply here. Throughout the infinite past, in each year he writes about a day. Hence, he writes about an infinite number of days. There is no possible means for "convergence" here. >>which I suspect is why he declined to >>elucidate further when I asked him what calculus has >>to do with it. > >Actually, I grew weary of explaining every nuance of >what I meant. As pretentious as it sounds, I don't >like dealing with people who aren't willing to make >half an intellectual effort to understand the points >made. I have made an effort to understand your points. Though often times it almost seems that you don't do the same with mine. (Confer this post.) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date That's what I'm talking about Damoclese 04/ 8/04 7:44am Really? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/ 8/04 10:07am Watch this -- Damoclese, 04/ 8/04 10:29am I'm watching. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/11/04 9:38pm and oh yeah -- damoclese, 04/ 8/04 10:51am Oh yeah! Kool Aid for everyone! -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/11/04 9:48pm Assuming -- Damoclese, 04/12/04 8:25am Infinity. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/12/04 10:25am heh -- Damoclese, 04/12/04 11:14am Tee hee. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/12/04 4:47pm "one" -- Damoclese, 04/12/04 6:56pm Two -- Wade A. Tishtammer, 04/14/04 1:06pm What's good for the goose -- Damoclese, 04/14/04 5:04pm What other alternatives are there? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/15/04 11:37am Ganders -- Damoclese, 04/15/04 5:36pm Why abandon logic? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/28/04 12:14pm Hiatus over -- Damoclese, 04/28/04 6:53pm Illogical to abandon logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/29/04 12:47pm what a bounty -- Damoclese, 04/29/04 2:25pm Of logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 2/04 3:11pm of intuition -- Damoclese, 05/ 4/04 10:51am Of more logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 7/04 2:25pm One mistake... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/15/04 11:40am