From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/9119 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jean Benabou Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: (unknown) Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:43:51 -0400 Message-ID: Reply-To: Jean Benabou NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1487263537 12903 195.159.176.226 (16 Feb 2017 16:45:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 16:45:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Thu Feb 16 17:45:32 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtp2.mta.ca ([198.164.44.40]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cePBP-0002Xn-Tw for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:45:28 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:44483) by smtp2.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cePAP-0004Fn-9d; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ceP9r-0002Dz-Qf for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Thu, 16 Feb 2017 12:43:51 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:9119 Archived-At: Dear Steve, I can understand you don't like my question. Some of the answers I =20 received prove that other mathematicians I respect approve of it, have =20= thought about, and have given partial answers to it. If you have any objections, take a stand and give MATHEMATICAL reasons =20= for your objections. All you say is; > I'm saying the same can happen in mathematics. Prove that it DID happen in my question! By the way, I'm no zoologist but, by fishing through your mails, I =20 found a big gap in your refutation. Neither in your mails nor in =20 Fred's did I find any reference to the octopus. If there is any good =20 reason for this omission, mathematical OR zoological, please make it =20= public and justify it. All the best, Jean Le 14 f=E9vr. 17 =E0 09:48, Steve Vickers a =E9crit : > Dear Fred, > > A good answer, but my point was that it was a bad question. > > You see this once you start pressing at the details. Are seals and =20 > turtles fish? No, but on your definition it depends on whether =20 > flippers count as legs or not. What about sea snakes? Obviously not =20= > - they're snakes, that just happen to live in the sea. But then eels =20= > do seem a bit more fishy. > > A meticulous zoologist would start piling on the subclauses to pin =20 > it down more precisely, but we know that that does not actually =20 > refine our understanding of zoology. It just amplifies the =20 > misconceptions underlying the original question. > > > > All the best, > > Steve. > [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]