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To: Hank Kerchief
(She does say the attempt to prove axiomatic concepts is self-contradictory, by which she means you have to start with a contradiction to make the attempt, that is, you have to assume what is true to be not true.)

LOL! What you've just derided is a popular and useful technique for mathematical proof.

418 posted on 05/02/2003 9:56:11 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb
...you've just derided is a popular and useful technique for mathematical proof.

Really? Which one? I mean, which one begins by saying, "there is not mathematical truth"?

and you believe the way to prove the existence of a thing is to deny its existence, say, God, for instance.

You are a treat.

Hank

432 posted on 05/02/2003 12:32:18 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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