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- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!torkel
- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Do completed infinite totalities exist? Was: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem
- In-Reply-To: paul@mtnmath.UUCP's message of 20 Nov 92 16:40:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Nov20160605@lludd.sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <TORKEL.92Nov19201017@lludd.sics.se>
- <365@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:06:05 GMT
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- In article <365@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
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- >This is an important and useful concept. Does this mean that we must accept
- >that the set of all reals as a completed infinite totality? I do not think so.
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- You don't have to accept anything. You are free to develop whatever
- mathematics you like and put it forward for general consideration. What
- I am objecting to is only the idea that e.g. the distinction between
- countable and uncountable sets can be seen to be a "relative" one in
- the light of results in logic.
-