Xref: utzoo comp.ai:2778 talk.philosophy.misc:1668 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!bionet!agate!gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu From: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc Subject: Papal bull about infinity Message-ID: <17723@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 88 09:24:15 GMT References: <1919@garth.UUCP> <2671@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <1923@garth.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) Followup-To: talk.philosophy.misc Organization: Garnet Gang Gems of Wisdom, Inc. Lines: 13 In-reply-to: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan) In article <1923@garth.UUCP>, smryan@garth (Steven Ryan) writes: >Without wanting to start a jihad, but in most math and computer >science, there is a real attempt to avoid the word `infinity' and >`infinite' really is restricted to `infinite set.' I don't know about computer science, but the Pope already told you that you are wrong wrong wrong-o about mathematics, and gave examples. If you can't trust the Pope, whom can you trust? -- ucbvax!garnet!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720 Logicians are apt to call this an *argumentum ad hominem*. Quite so: .. I am addressing *humans*. I am addressing neither dogs nor logicians.