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|    The Starmaker to ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com    |
|    Re: "The Fundamental Joke of Logic" (3/3    |
|    26 Nov 25 14:15:35    |
      [continued from previous message]              who has then run with it all the way into a grand foundational       unification program—without pausing to check which parts are already       accepted, which parts are speculative but respectable, and which parts       are currently fringe or idiosyncratic.              It’s not crankery (the references are too sophisticated for that), but       it’s also not disciplined mathematics or physics. It’s visionary       prose—poetry almost—written by someone who believes they have seen the       One True Continuum hiding behind 150 years of archimedean prejudice.              Interesting? Absolutely.       Correct in every particular? Very much not.       Worth reading as a provocation that makes you re-examine why we ever       thought the standard real numbers were the end of the story?       Definitely.              --------end here              i say it's all crank.                     --       The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,       to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,       and challenge the unchallengeable.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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