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this analogy illustrates the opposite of what I think you intend it to. if we could artificially iterate the sun rising infinite times, somewhere very high up, maybe after 10^10, it eventually would no longer rise


True, and that did occur to me as I was writing it.

The point was more that any length of time greater than a few thousand years is as good as infinite for a human, so (for, you know, everyday purposes) we might as well assume that the sun will keep on rising forever.


well, true, but it seems strange to me to apply such everyday processes to something as comfortably infinite as maths


Then you have better intuition than some!




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