0.999… repeating (or 0.9‾0.\bar{9}) is equal to 1. It’s a fact. To some, this is highly counterintuitive, unbelievable even. I’ve seen various explanations for how it works, from informal explanations to formal proofs. I recently found an interesting (not original) proof, but first I’ll give a couple less rigorous explanations. Informal arguments Tripling a third…
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Unfalsifiable claims can’t be corroborated
How can we tell that something is likely true? How we know stuff A proposition is a type of statement that can be true or false. Not all sentences are propositions. For example, “Some parrots have green feathers” is a proposition, while “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” is not a proposition. There are essentially three…
