[MD] Intuitive Reasoning?

[Gene M]

On 10/4/06, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [David]
> > To know that a thing is a thing surely you need
> > to know what nothing is, otherwise you can't
> > be sure that the thing is not a nothing. So knowing
> > what nothing is is something we all know
>
> 1)  To know that a thing is a thing surely you need
>  to know what a convergent harmonic series is, otherwise you can't
>  be sure that the thing is not a convergent harmonic series
> 2)  We know that a thing is a thing
> 3)  :. Convergent harmonic series are something we all know
> I feel better about my upcoming math exam already.
> Craig

I feel your example is misguided here Craig. Because Nothing is not
the same as Another Thing. In your example, all we need to know is
that it is a Not-convergent harmonic series, and since I don't know
what that is, I see Everything as a Not-convergent harmonic series.

However to see Some Thing, you have to know you are Not seeing No
Thing. Otherwise you wouldn't even know Something was there!!

I don't think the two examples sync well.

-Gene