2026-08-02 12:16 UTC
@bemmesr@mathstodon.xyz
"so textbooks are the ultimate proof of a claim, huh?" - no proofs are, and the Gaslighter can't come up with either! 😂 Go ahead and ask him for a proof as well
"Whatever happened to deduction?" - nothing. I used it once to prove him wrong! 😂
"Are we to believe everything that every textbook says?" - and where's your counter--evidence that they're all wrong then? 🙄
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@bemmesr@mathstodon.xyz 2026-08-02 12:18
@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social as I stated earlier, it's famously the case that many textbooks cite Euclid's theorem as a proof by contradiction, which is also famously an error. Of course I'm not saying they're all wrong, because they're not, but certainly it's possible for some of them to be wrong, or just disagree on some detail.