Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site cxsea.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!cxsea!douglas From: douglas@cxsea.UUCP (Douglas Wells) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Re: Bottled birds? Message-ID: <313@cxsea.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 12:49:45 EDT Article-I.D.: cxsea.313 Posted: Thu Aug 29 12:49:45 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 2-Sep-85 03:34:36 EDT References: <457@petfe.UUCP> <629@petsd.UUCP> Organization: Computer X Inc., Seattle, Washington. Lines: 23 > [] > In article <457@petfe.UUCP> bobp@petfe.UUCP (Bob Philhower) writes: > >Given: A bottle, (of arbitrary size), containing one (1) bird ... > >and eventually out of, the bottle? > [Christopher J. Henrich - replies] > While the bird is flying around in the bottle, it has ... > pattern, then you can expect it to apply to the aggregate of > them. Consider the following reductio ad absurdam, and I think the answer becomes obvious. Allow the opening to the bottle to become infinitely large. ================================================================== Independent Truckers - The last American Cowboys Douglas