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>From: zeleny@coolidge.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
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Subject: Re: Existence
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Date: 8 Dec 91 22:41:17 GMT
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In article <1991Dec8.205413.16910@eff.org>
mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:

>In article <1991Dec6.204854.2218@arizona.edu>
>bill@NSMA.AriZonA.EdU (Bill Skaggs) writes:

BS:
>>What does it mean to say "Real numbers exist"?  Both Chesters and
>>Zeleny believe that this sentence is either true or false.  In fact
>>it is merely meaningless.

MG:
>What a trip down Memory Lane this posting was! Bill seems eager
>to lift this discussion of the existence of real numbers from
>Platonism, which is centuries old and which has few modern
>adherents, to modern linguistic analysis, which is only a few decades
>out of date, but which also has far fewer adherents than it once had.

The irony of the above observation by the impeccably au courant Godlouse
consists in his belonging to a guild so perspicaciously characterized by
Jonathan Swift as "pernicious vermin", which has no adherents whatsoever.

>--Mike

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