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From: Newberry on 23 Mar 2010 01:29
On Mar 22, 6:44 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
> "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> writes:
>
> > "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> writes:
>
> >>> Although I don't necessarily agree with the idea of killfiling someone
> >>> merely because one disagrees with them, Clarke is only doing the
> >>> same thing to Hughes that Daryl McCullough, another poster in this
> >>> thread, has done to me. And Clarke has killfiled Hughes for the exact
> >>> same reason that McCullough has killfiled me -- because both Hughes
> >>> and I have repeatedly posted statements with which Clarke and
> >>> McCullough, respectively, disagree. The so-called "cranks" and the
> >>> standard theorists have more in common with each other than either
> >>> would like to admit.
>
> > Two points I failed to make: First, I don't see why you think Clarke
> > is a crank.
>
> Actually, I should also say that Newberry is not a crank -- at least
> not by the standards of sci.math.  He's fairly passionate about
> replacing FOL with an alternative, which is certainly crank*ish*, but
> he's perfectly coherent and relatively competent.  (I'm not sure he
> has the knowledge necessary to complete his project, but he's still
> relatively knowledgeable about the subject.)

I know enough to cause a lot of damage.

> Compare his writings to AP, James S. Harris, Meuckenheim.  Newberry is
> not in the same league.
>
> --
> Jesse F. Hughes
>
> "Had you told it like it was, it wouldn't be like it is."
>                                  -- Albert King

From: Aatu Koskensilta on 23 Mar 2010 05:31
Transfer Principle <lwalke3(a)lausd.net> writes:

> Aatu writes that he prefers educated guesses to random "evidence." I
> wonder what educated guess Aatu himself would give as the proportion
> of physicists who believe that 0.999...=1.

The overwhelming majority of physicists blithely accept all elementary
mathematical results they're familiar with.

--
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 23 Mar 2010 05:42
Nam Nguyen <namducnguyen(a)shaw.ca> writes:

> Is G(T), to you, a formula written in L(T) or in the language of
> arithmetic [i.e. L(PA)]?

To me? Surely it's up to you to explain your notation.

--
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Aatu Koskensilta on 23 Mar 2010 05:43
Newberry <newberryxy(a)gmail.com> writes:

> I know enough to cause a lot of damage.

What sort of damage is this?

--
Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta(a)uta.fi)

"Wovon man nicht sprechan kann, dar�ber muss man schweigen"
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
From: Jesse F. Hughes on 23 Mar 2010 07:39
Newberry <newberryxy(a)gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 22, 6:44 pm, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>> "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> writes:
>>
>> > "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...(a)phiwumbda.org> writes:
>>
>> >>> Although I don't necessarily agree with the idea of killfiling someone
>> >>> merely because one disagrees with them, Clarke is only doing the
>> >>> same thing to Hughes that Daryl McCullough, another poster in this
>> >>> thread, has done to me. And Clarke has killfiled Hughes for the exact
>> >>> same reason that McCullough has killfiled me -- because both Hughes
>> >>> and I have repeatedly posted statements with which Clarke and
>> >>> McCullough, respectively, disagree. The so-called "cranks" and the
>> >>> standard theorists have more in common with each other than either
>> >>> would like to admit.
>>
>> > Two points I failed to make: First, I don't see why you think Clarke
>> > is a crank.
>>
>> Actually, I should also say that Newberry is not a crank -- at least
>> not by the standards of sci.math.  He's fairly passionate about
>> replacing FOL with an alternative, which is certainly crank*ish*, but
>> he's perfectly coherent and relatively competent.  (I'm not sure he
>> has the knowledge necessary to complete his project, but he's still
>> relatively knowledgeable about the subject.)
>
> I know enough to cause a lot of damage.

I really wish you wouldn't say things like that when I'm claiming
you're not a crank. It makes me look foolish.

>> Compare his writings to AP, James S. Harris, Meuckenheim.  Newberry is
>> not in the same league.
>>
>> --
>> Jesse F. Hughes
>>
>> "Had you told it like it was, it wouldn't be like it is."
>>                                  -- Albert King
>
--
Jesse F. Hughes
"[I]t's the damndest thing. There's something wrong with every last
one of you, and I *never* thought that was a possibility. But now I
feel it's the only reasonable conclusion." --JSH sees some sorta light
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