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Old 24-July-2008, 12:41 AM
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Originally Posted by DrRocket View Post
A theorem has either been proved or not proved and any counter-example is enough to declare a hypothesis to be false. But mathematics is not science.
That point is also quite relevant to the "sidebar" I'm having with Disinfo Agent.
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