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From: pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor)
Subject: Re: On Folk Psychological Idioms & Science
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 17:58:50 GMT
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In article <hubey.827196369@pegasus.montclair.edu>,
H. M. Hubey <hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu> wrote:
>pindor@gpu.utcc.utoronto.ca (Andrzej Pindor) writes:
>
>
>> I think that you are overlooking here the simple fact that to 'choose' in
>>finite time we have to use a representation with a finite accuracy. 
>
>The rationals are infinite. And we can think of labels for some
>of the irrationals like Pi-3, 1/Pi, 1/e etc.
>
To 'choose' in finite time you have to deal with finite representations
even for rationals (i.e. restrict yourself to a finite number of digits of
numeratior and denominator). And you can only deal with a finite number of
labels, because you can only spell out a label of a finite length.
>
>-- 
>Regards, Mark
>Those who speak don't know.                  Those who know won't speak.
>http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~hubey         hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu

Andrzej
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