On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 08:47:22AM +0200, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > All argument in math are from incredulity.
Not at all. They should be precise deductions from a given set of premisses, using agreed rules of logic. Even argument by contradiction deductively demonstrates an inconsistency between the premisses. Incredulity has nothing to do with it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
