Well ain't that a hoot!
Apr. 14th, 2006 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
herveusHow To Deconstruct Almost Anything (http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html) showed up on http://del.icio.us/popular/ this morning. It's a hoot!
I found myself thinking of the immense convenience of lugging around a set of assertions (axioms) that contain a contradiction. Indirect proof is a wonderful thing, and if you can simply assert P and ~P by selecting appropriate axioms, or you can derive ~P from P at will, you can logically prove anything you want. It's so convenient.
I found myself thinking of the immense convenience of lugging around a set of assertions (axioms) that contain a contradiction. Indirect proof is a wonderful thing, and if you can simply assert P and ~P by selecting appropriate axioms, or you can derive ~P from P at will, you can logically prove anything you want. It's so convenient.
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Date: 2006-04-14 12:02 pm (UTC)