Richard has accused others who disagreed with him of engaging in mere
gainsay. Pot. Kettle. Black. Exhibit A follows:
On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 02:34 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
Valloud Andres <Andres.Valloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
When you write x in x\x or xUx, you don't refer to the actual set,
Yes you do. That's how mathematics works.
you refer to a definition.
No you don't.
You can refer to a definition because you wrote something like
x = {e | e has some property}
y = {e1, ..., en}
Not often.
Right or wrong, aren't these quibbles getting way out of hand?
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