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In comp.theory olcott <[email protected]> wrote:

The non-philosophical position is to take conventional
wisdom as the infallible word of God and to consider
any challenges to this mere conventional view as a sort
of blasphemy to be ridiculed.

No, not blasphemy, just stupidity. The circle squarers, angle trisectors
and cube duplicators are not blasphemous, just stupid. Their
intelligence doesn't reach the level needed to appreciate their ignorance
of the pertinent proven mathematics.

To those can be added the halting problemists.

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Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius
hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

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