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Logic insists that between two points lies an infinite set of divisions, making it "impossible" to traverse from start to end. Yet, in practice, the finger does move from the beginning to the end in finite time. It is not first-order logic (FOL) that insists on such a thing. FOL does not ...

The foundations of mathematics destroyed: Tarski Godel ZFC-by colin leslie dean 1)Tarski never gets to define truth 2) Godel is logically invalid as the axiom he uses bans his G statement which is used to prove his theorem 3)ZFC bans itself and allows what it bans internally inconsistent take 1) Ta...

An all encompassing system of logic, that underlies all experience of existence as existence itself, would be so fundamental and foundational to all things that it's general use would lead to such a high degree of subtlety as to be indistinct and meaningless, other than the system building upon its...

Zeno was the first known person to write a philosophy book in the West. And in it he discovered the strangness of infinity. You are right in saying that calculus, in relying on infinity, is false, but reality is made of discrete parts. There are no infinite parts with infinite parts with.... Take th...