(July 6, 2015 at 4:05 am)pool Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 3:33 am)Alex K Wrote: If we think of the timeline as the real numbers for now, and as you do above, we define the present as an isolated single point on that, say 0 for simplicity, then the past (negative numbers) and future (positive numbers) reach arbitrarily close to this point, but that doesn't mean the point is part of the present or future.
The fact that you have constructed a progression 1/n where the individual elements all are an element of the future, but the limiting value is the point you call "present", mathematically speaking does *not* show or mean that the "present" point is an element of the future. It only means that the present point is arbitrarily close to points in the future - there is no gap.
The technical term would be that 0 is in the closure of the set R\0, (i.e. real numbers with 0 removed). It's an element of the closure of the set, not of the set itself.
what I'm saying is standard calculus on real numbers.
What you are saying^
What i see: ldafijadf*$%*(dfjkdflkadf
So basically i'm wrong?
Yes, I think so...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
