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Personally, I think it's totally valid. (PhD mathematician here).
by GFK_of_xmaspast 12y ago
Personally, I think it's totally valid. (PhD mathematician here).
- evanb 12y agoIt's certainly a valid argument, but it's not... enlightening in the same way other kinds of arguments are.
- JadeNB 12y ago> Personally, I think it's totally valid. To be fair, though it's a bit ambiguous, I read sebastialonso's post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799362 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8799362 as indicating that he or she believes that the result is true—i.e., does not necessarily reject the validity of proof by exhaustion as a style of argumentation—but does not feel that the proof by exhaustion is an explanation.