litcritter bashing and the academic factory
bill fancher
fancher at pacbell.net
Wed Oct 27 11:17:49 PDT 1999
> Thus, Lacan is
> busted for "confus[ing] irrational numbers with imaginary numbers,
> while claiming to be 'precise.'" Golly, doesn't that prove that Lacan
> is a worthless faker!
I pondered this question and came up with the following answer:
Yes.
This is a trivial distinction and anyone failing to grasp it can't have
anything interesting to say about mathematics. Anyone who does fail to
grasp it and then says something about mathematics under guise of
authority is a worthless faker. QED.
--
bill
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