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The Gospel of Crazy Eye Dog
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The Infinite Laws of Infinity
A mathematician named David devised a thought experiment to illustrate some of the intuitions that one has to drop when reasoning about infinity. The best explanation of anything eventually involves universality and therefore infinity, the reach of explanations cannot be limited. But if you believe there are bounds on the domain in which reason is the proper arbiter of ideas, then you believe in unreason or the supernatural.
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