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→‎Errors: Jesus Christ was no less truthful simply because he was (and is) controversial.
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[[User:Elproof|Elproof]] 19:45, 7 April 2012 (EDT)
 
[[User:Elproof|Elproof]] 19:45, 7 April 2012 (EDT)
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:These are nitpicky points, and I don't see why any of them would require any changes to the entry.  I address each point:
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::(1) Your comment complains about the definition, but does not offer a better one.  Instead, your comment says the definition is "vague", but then uses even vaguer terminology like "heavy machinery" or whether "a bright high-schooler could follow it."
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::(2) Your comment that "less rigorous" should be replaced by "less controversial" would, again, be a step in the wrong direction.  "Controversy" does not delineate limits on truth.  [[Jesus Christ]] was no less truthful simply because he was (and is) controversial.
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::(3) This point is silly and does not merit a response.
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::(4) It's obviously not the number of assumptions that matter, but the lack of rigor in the assumptions made.  Assuming that there is a unique square root of -1 is a highly non-rigorous, even implausible, assumption underlying complex analysis.
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::(5) "but elementary proofs are not always preferred ..." by whom?  One doesn't allow a fox to guard a henhouse, and neither mathematicians nor politicians should be setting their own rules as they go, or else before long all sorts of nonsensical "proofs" might be asserted by some academics at [[liberal]] institutions.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:46, 8 April 2012 (EDT)
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