FOM: misunderstandings?

[Fred Richman]

Martin Davis wrote:
 
> At 04:54 PM 6/5/00 -0400, Fred Richman wrote:
 
>>Mathematicians don't find anything problematic.
 
> This of course is untrue. Mathematicians have found problematical lots
> of things: abandoning commutativity, non-Euclidean geometry, ...

Sure. I meant in common mathematical practice. They don't find the law
of excluded middle problematic; they do find rejection of that law
problematic. The original reference here was to the membership
relation.

--Fred