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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Re: Do completed infinite totalities exist? Was: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.074740.13322@smds.com>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 07:47:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <TORKEL.92Nov20160605@lludd.sics.se> <369@mtnmath.UUCP> <TORKEL.92Nov21195445@bast.sics.se>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- In article <TORKEL.92Nov21195445@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
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- > The distinction is quite simple. "Provability in T" is an example of a
- >concept that has a formal system as a parameter, "uncountable" is an
- >example of a concept that has no formal system as a parameter, whether
- >explicit or implicit.
-
- Perhaps the distinction is quite simple, but I fail to see it. In
- particular I fail to see why there isn't an implicit formal system
- in the concept of "uncountable". Unless one accepts the notion of
- the absolute uncountable, uncountability is always relative to s
- system and a model for the system, is it not?
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