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If something can be “twice as small” or “one-thousand times as small”—and “journalists” tell us these things all the time—why can’t something be “infinitely small”?


54 posted on 02/20/2015 7:43:45 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Or, “ten times quieter” or “three times less filling” or...


57 posted on 02/20/2015 7:46:28 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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Oh, I did not intend to say that “Infinitely small” is not plausible. All I said was that he left out “Finitely small”. ;-)


59 posted on 02/20/2015 7:53:30 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Arthur McGowan
If something can be “twice as small” or “one-thousand times as small”...

It's the expression "ten times smaller" that makes me bang my head against the desk. Are they being deliberately ambiguous or really that ignorant?

66 posted on 02/20/2015 8:31:37 PM PST by stormhill
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To: Arthur McGowan
why can’t something be “infinitely small”?

Because, to be "infinitely small" means EXACTLY this: no matter how small it is, there is something smaller. We have a name for that: it is zero. A thing which is smaller than all other things has no existence.

74 posted on 02/20/2015 9:10:28 PM PST by FredZarguna (Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.)
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