Re: Simple enough for every reader?

On 28.05.2025 01:06, Ben Bacarisse wrote:

Mikko <mikko.levanto@iki.fi> writes:

Maybe the idea is that an exposure to nonsense helps students to learn
to identify nonsense when they see it.

 They have to regurgitate the nonsense to get the marks.  I once asked WM
what would happen if a student presented real mathematics in the exam
and he said they would not get the marks.

No, you are lying. I would have asked him to explain his position and would have convinced him that your "real" mathematics is self-contradictory nonsense like I can convince everybody including you, unless you simply deny to understand my arguments (like Mikko denies to understand proofs by induction).
All natural numbers can be manipulated collectively, for instance subtracted: ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ...} = { }. Here all have disappeared.
Could all natural numbers be distinguished, then this subtraction could also happen but, caused by the well-order, a last one would disappear. Contradiction.
Regards, WM