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Your first sentence is probably true, but the point is that most people find the former more intuitive. It's a valid demonstration technique. Just because A ent
by cgmg 9y ago
Your first sentence is probably true, but the point is that most people find the former more intuitive. It's a valid demonstration technique. Just because A entails B in the mathematical/logical sense doesn't mean everyone who believes A also believes B. No one is logically omniscient.
- umanwizard 9y agoThe point of mathematical proofs isn't really to convince people psychologically that something is true -- it's to show why something is true. Do you really know "why" 0.99.. = 1 by writing 0.99... = 3 * (0.33...) = 3 * 1/3 = 1 ? I'd argue that you just kicked the can down the road.
- cgmg 9y agoDid I say it was a mathematical proof?