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BillWoodruff has posted a comment to the Answer "What is Android? A technology or an operating system?":

It seems to me that the question: "is the infinity of the non-existence of verbal knowledge ordinally greater than the infinity of non-existence of written knowledge ?" … is the type of question the contemplation of which drove both Cantor and Gödel insane in remarkably similar ways

Now, as to the Cantor's work… As to the infinite sets, this is how the Cantor's "naive set theory" (not so naive, by the way, but trivial enough) was crashed in one shot:

Bill Woodruff answers questions of all CodeProject members except of the members who answer their questions themselves. Does Bill answer his own questions?

If we suppose he does, he is an element of the subset of CodeProject members who do answer their own questions. But Bill does not answer questions of the members of this subset, so he does not answer his own questions, too. From the other hand, if now we suppose that he does not answer his own questions, he is an element of the subset of CodeProject members who do not answer their own questions, and he does answer questions of all members of this subset, so he does answer his own questions. We came to a deadlock.

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Some questions are clever, some are silly or naive, some are not well-defined. But this question is worse. It's about nothing; the question of a person who has nothing to do. Please forgive me for these words; I know that it might be not true, I just say that the question looks like that. Maybe, this is just a matter of misunderstanding.

I guess I should explain why there is such impression.

Well, everyone understands that it's way too easy to check up if "Android" is the name of some OS or not. No need to ask a question; the answer would come much faster if you consult Wikipedia or other source. As to the word "technology", the situation is much worse. One could suspect that you are unfamiliar with all the uses of this fuzzy notion, "technology". But then you would probably need to get some idea on that, which would be well behind your interest in Android. But if you have a good idea of the patterns of the use of the word "technology" (which is much more likely), it means that you have a wrong idea of how knowledge works, and this would be more troublesome.

Maybe you don't understand that there is no such thing as verbal knowledge. (Of course, except the knowledge related to words themselves, such as knowledge of language, linguistics, and so on.) For example, as new OS often introduce some new technologies, OS itself can be call "technology", or the name of the OS could be associated with the OS name, as in "Android technology". But there is no any valid statement in telling that "this OS is a technology" or "this OS is not"; and the question "is it OS or technology?" sounds as a total absurd. This is because none of those statements means anything to the understanding of that OS. There is no such thing as verbal knowledge. Discussing such things is only possible in some imitation of "clever discussion". About nothing.

Please consider two previous paragraphs also as an answer to the question about "technology".