greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) (02/13/88)
In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes: }In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes: }>>The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make }>>empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have }>>made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in }>>the bonds of Hell ... --Saint Augustine (heh heh heh) } }I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor. How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise. -- greg
markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) (02/14/88)
In article <1805@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) writes: >In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes: >}In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes: >}>>The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make >}>>empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have >}>>made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in >}>>the bonds of Hell ... --Saint Augustine (heh heh heh) >} >}I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor. > >How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise. One thing confuses me: I thought the Devil was Christian.
gcf@actnyc.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) (02/18/88)
In article <4579@uwmcsd1.UUCP> markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes: }In article <1805@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) writes: }}In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes: }}}In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes: }}}}}The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make }}}}}empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have }}}}}made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in }}}}}the bonds of Hell ... --Saint Augustine (heh heh heh) }}} }}}I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor. }} }}How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise. } }One thing confuses me: I thought the Devil was Christian. Based on his deeds or his professed beliefs?
IU6@PSUVMA.BITNET (02/18/88)
In article <4579@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) says: > >In article <1805@mind.UUCP> greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) writes: >>In article <24268@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) writes: >>}In article <264@pedsga.UUCP> lae@pedsga.UUCP (Leslie Ellis) writes: >>}>>The good Christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make >>}>>empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have >>}>>made a covenant with the Devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in >>}>>the bonds of Hell ... --Saint Augustine (heh heh heh) >>} >>}I bet he was being prophetic about Georg Cantor. >> >>How times change. Hilbert said Cantor gave us Paradise. > >One thing confuses me: I thought the Devil was Christian. Who cares? Pascal pointed out that "What goes beyond geometry goes beyond man."
greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) (02/20/88)
Here's a new idea some of you might like to toss around:
*To the extent that you are willing to accept Kant's classification*
of propositions as synthetic or analytic, a priori or a posteriori, do
you consider the Axiom of choice to be a synthetic a priori
proposition?
(I included my initial qualification to rule out a discussion of the
continuing validity of Kant's classification, a discussion that would
more properly belong in talk.philosophy.misc. Have the libertarians
left yet?)
--
greg