CronoDAS comments on How is your mind different from everyone else's? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 22 December 2011 10:53:31AM *  4 points [-]

This is actually a pretty good habit to get into when doing math. Lots of plausible-sounding conjectures actually do turn out to be false because math can allow for some pretty strange-seeming things. For example, you can have functions that are continuous everywhere but differentiable nowhere, or uncountable sets with length zero, or all kinds of other crazy things.