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::WHAT?? Yes. I apologize for my "stance of withering patrician disdain for the untutored mind", but that's why mathematical proof by contradiction works. OK? [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 16:30, 3 December 2015 (EST)
::WHAT?? Yes. I apologize for my "stance of withering patrician disdain for the untutored mind", but that's why mathematical proof by contradiction works. OK? [[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 16:30, 3 December 2015 (EST)
:It's called the [[principle of explosion]]. It's a tenet of classical logic, so surely it must apply to the logical process employed in mathematical proofs. [[User:VargasMilan|VargasMilan]] ([[User talk:VargasMilan|talk]]) 16:58, 3 December 2015 (EST)