Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Mathematics' Unanswerable question

Religions are not the only one with unanswerable questions. Even Mathematics have unanswerable questions. What is the largest natural number? You cannot answer that question. Each time you think of a number, N, there is always a number, N + 1, which is greater than it. But no matter how large the natural number is, infinity is always greater than it.

It is okay to have unanswerable questions. It is never an issue. The issue is, is it really an unanswerable questions? One can always label an answerable question as an unanswerable question to stop questions and to avoid being exposed. Thus we must always examine an unanswerable question to make sure it is truly unanswerable.

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