Re: SF: Some basic facts

From: David Kastrup (dak_at_gnu.org)
Date: 04/20/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:31:02 +0200

jstevh@msn.com writes:

> First off, I have the surrogate factoring theorem, also known as the
> SFT, which is a theorem.
>
> So, as a theorem, it can't be refuted.
>
> That's a fact, which makes it nice for me because it's an
> irrefutable point from which to handle posters.
>
> That's a nice thing about mathematics: absolutes.

Given your talent of constantly making rearrangement and sign errors,
there is not much absoluteness in your derivations. You are
constantly "Oops"ing them.

> Now posters have gone on and on about why they say it can't be made
> practical, but, so what?
>
> It's still a theorem, still an absolute, still absolutely true.

So is 1=1, but it has more practical utility.

> Yes, I can rely on "pure math" here, as the concept is just
> amazingly clever, even if it turns out it doesn't work.

There is nothing more ridiculous than a mathematical narcissist. In
particular if he revels in the plain, ugly and pointless. 

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

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