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I'm pretty sure that making arguments under idealistic assumption often allows us to make progress. Yea certain methods can seem problematic and I definitely ha
by zero-sharp 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that making arguments under idealistic assumption often allows us to make progress. Yea certain methods can seem problematic and I definitely have worried about this before. But I'm pretty sure there's evidence that certain, useful, theories just wouldn't exist unless we used infinity in some capacity.
- chriswarbo 3y agoIt goes the other way too, when infinities are used to hand-wave some pesky detail; which turns out to itself have beautiful structure.