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Re:Haskell People by catnaroek on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:16PM (#15374192)
I was deliberately “acting stupid” to criticize an insufficiently precise definition.

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> That is usually a terrible idea.

Not at all. Think about the structure of a proof of negation. You make a “silly” assumption and “play along” until you reach a contradiction.

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Re:Haskell People by conistonwater on Saturday September 30, 2017 @02:46PM (#15374381)
That is usually a terrible idea.
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Re:Haskell People by conistonwater on Saturday September 30, 2017 @04:38PM (#15374879)
Proofs by contradiction do not require you to play dumb, you can just present them as they are.
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