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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 11:22 am
I think you are talking about a solid object and therefore not a container. To talk about a container that holds a maximum of zero object is to speak of a logically impossible thing, like a triangle with four sides.
Another way to look at is a division by zero. A container that can hold a maximum of 8 things but only has 2 things in it could be expressed as 2/8ths full so a container that holds a maximum of 0 items, no matter how many things are in it would always be expressed as x/0 which is undefined in mathematics.
They made a box like that in Futurama and it was really portal to a parallel universe. Leela jumped into the box due to a coin toss and wackiness ensued.
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:13 pm
ok I think that's enough mental gymnastics for me, we all seem to be saying thesame thing anyways.
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Ahh but we might not be not-saying different things and that isn't what this thread is not about! Un-think not about nothing.
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Which is better, a ham sandwich or eternal paradise?
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:47 pm
a ham sandwich.. I'm hungry
rhizo I just did the pupil teacher thing and your post made my brain shut down. Time for a sandwich and a nap! LD
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:47 pm
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Both are just mental contructs to me at this point so they are equaly unreal to me ergo, of equal value.
Tacky,
Um, yeah, that is a weird one.
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:50 pm
The argument goes like this. "Nothing is better than eternal paradise. A ham sandwich is clearly better than nothing so the answer is a ham sandwhich."
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RE: A hypothetical non-container.
March 17, 2010 at 1:54 pm
It is a container, the container part is fine. The objects are the cause of the parodox, as there is no specified size then the container can hold [0,∞) objects. It can hold 0 objects that are too big, and ∞ objects that are ifinitely small. Without defining the size of the objects, any container will be able to hold [0,∞) objects.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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