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Tuesday, April 29, 11:58:14pmLogin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1234[5]678910 ]
Subject: And Ben was right


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Duane
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Date Posted: 08/31/04 6:21am
In reply to: Duane 's message, "Finally.... Tristam meets his doom.... (bleah)" on 08/31/04 5:56am

And, interestingly enough, Ben, in his first response to your original post, was fundamentally correct - he said, essentially, that "infinite quantities aren't equal"

Which intuitively captures the essence of why your(?) inappropriate extension of the Tristam Shandy paradox isn't correct.

Duane

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That's a good pointDamoclese09/ 1/04 10:14pm


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