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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   
   
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   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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