Posted by GaDS on September 02, 1998 at 11:00:24:
In Reply to: Hey, Hey, we're the monkeys posted by Bob 2 on September 01, 1998 at 22:48:53:
: The "point" is that you’re saying a lot, but you’re not saying anything of real importance. You’re thinking is limited. Each of your scenarios have some sort of limit built into the argument. INFINITY DOES NOT HAVE LIMITS...
And my point was that the idea of infinity that you so freely toss around and profess to comprehend has contradictions inherent to it. "If Zeus is omnipotent, can he create a rock that he cannot lift?" is an ancient conundrum proposed when the idea of no limits was discussed. I am aware that there are classes of infinity so that not all infinities are the same, but as the paradox of the monkeys all eventually typing what the others will type demonstrates, "infinity" is not something that can be produced as a miraculous cure-all tonic to shore up theories, as the concept itself is ill-defined. If you purport to comprehend it (as your posting seems to imply), feel free to put it into words for our elucidation. If you don't, stop bandying it about and deriding others who admit that they don't.
GaDS
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