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11 Aug 2024 05:17:03 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Eating thoughts  
From: Matt Giwer
Date: 5 Sep 1999 03:21:43
Message: <37D21A06.2498331F@giwersworld.org>
Mark Wagner wrote:

> Matt Giwer wrote in message <37D20FB5.377766EF@giwersworld.org>...
> > First rigorously define the means of proof as in math and we can
> >go from there. 1=1 by definition because it is math. It is the
> >foundation of math that the symbols mean the same at all times. A
> >is A.

> This is one of the basic postulates of all mathematics, just like the
> parallel postulate is one of the basic postulates of Euclidean geometry.
> Assume the postulate is untrue, and you get a different mathematics.

	If you assume 1 is not equal to 1 you negate mathmatics. It is
on the order of negating lines rather than assuming they are or
not parallel.


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