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From: MoeBlee on 31 Aug 2006 17:22 Lester Zick wrote: > I didn't ask what common approaches are, Moe, and I don't care what > common approaches are. I asked what the difference is between > definitions and propositions. It's a simple question and what I asked > for was the answer. If you can't give the answer then extemporaneous > speculations on approaches of others won't produce the answer either. I think the approach I mentioned is an excellent one, and better than any other I know of. You can take that, along with my description of the approach to be my answer. MoeBlee
From: Lester Zick on 31 Aug 2006 18:32 On 31 Aug 2006 14:22:07 -0700, "MoeBlee" <jazzmobe(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Lester Zick wrote: >> I didn't ask what common approaches are, Moe, and I don't care what >> common approaches are. I asked what the difference is between >> definitions and propositions. It's a simple question and what I asked >> for was the answer. If you can't give the answer then extemporaneous >> speculations on approaches of others won't produce the answer either. > >I think the approach I mentioned is an excellent one, and better than >any other I know of. You can take that, along with my description of >the approach to be my answer. Unfortunately not to the question I posed. Do even have an inkling why this isn't an answer, Moe? Is it because I'm a bad person? Or because you're extemporizing on unresponsive collateral considerations and yet calling them answers? ~v~~
From: Lester Zick on 31 Aug 2006 18:34 On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:26:09 -0600, Virgil <virgil(a)comcast.net> wrote: >In article <9j6ef21r43bkfbp361j8pen3q2kv6m4seq(a)4ax.com>, > Lester Zick <dontbother(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:14:02 EDT, "T.H. Ray" <thray123(a)aol.com> wrote: >> > >> >What makes you think that mathematicians assign any >> >value at all to what one personally believes? >> >> And what makes you think anyone assigns any value to what anyone >> believes about modern mathematics? > >One would assign at least as much value to the opinions of widely >recognized mathematicians on modern mathematicians that the opinions of >those like Zick who have shown they know virtually nothing about it. Oookay then I guess we got that straightened out. Now weren't you about to show us a rac construction for pi on a straight line, Virgil? ~v~~
From: Virgil on 31 Aug 2006 18:35 In article <kcfef25ggvc4sli148c359pufc0r98nbqn(a)4ax.com>, Lester Zick <dontbother(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > I do understand the collective angst projections of neo platonic > mystics however. Then bother some psychology news group.
From: Lester Zick on 31 Aug 2006 18:37
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:22:05 -0600, Virgil <virgil(a)comcast.net> wrote: >In article <1g6ef29j95erganm4b51kteh5ab6d7pcdf(a)4ax.com>, > Lester Zick <dontbother(a)nowhere.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:02:24 -0600, Virgil <virgil(a)comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >In article <bn4cf213is70kjhmu35h9e7945hc3bb36i(a)4ax.com>, >> > Lester Zick <dontbother(a)nowhere.net> wrote: >> > >> >> On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:43:02 -0600, Virgil <virgil(a)comcast.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> >In article <r7kbf2tlc70iqjm2rp4ktprl1o3uui79jf(a)4ax.com>, >> >> > Lester Zick <dontbother(a)nowhere.net> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > >> >> >> >Hello Crackpot. >> >> >> >> >> >> Crackpot=disagreer. Quite mathematical. >> >> > >> >> >Crackpots are those who disagree not only without supporting evidence >> >> >but despite contrary evidence. >> >> > >> >> >Like Zick. >> >> >> >> Like exactly what contrary evidence do you mean, sport? Your opinions >> >> and assumptions of what's true and false? Or in your case I guess I >> >> should say your opinion of what's not true and not false? >> > >> >Zick claims that mathematicians claim their axioms to be true. >> >What evidence does he have of this claim? >> >Like most of his claims here, none! >> >> Actually Zick claims that modern mathematikers claim their axioms are >> not true. > >The set of "modern mathematikers" is purely an artifact of Zick's >misimaginings, Unfortunately the set of modern mathematikers who believe their axioms and definitions are not true is not one of those mis imaginings. > and has nothing to do with any real mathematicians, >modern or otherwise. Just as you have nothing to do with any real mathematics. ~v~~ |