Inconsistent math is great

post by Alok Singh (OldManNick) · 2022-12-25T03:20:39.074Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

Consistency is nice to have as a guarantee, but usually you don't need something so strong. A lot of weird things in math just collapse if the underlying object is finite.

Graham Priest gets into this a lot.

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