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- From: firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Continuos vs. discrete models Was: The size of electrons, ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.131202.17710@sei.cmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 13:12:02 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sei.1992Nov16.131202.17710
- References: <1992Nov7.214329.24552@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov13.194334.20447@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <350@mtnmath.UUCP>
- Organization: Software Engineering Institute
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- In article <350@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
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- >This well known result is called the Lowneheim and Skolem theorem. The
- >idea of the proof is that a formal system is a computer program for enumerating
- >theorems. The names of all real numbers created by such a program are
- >obviously countable.
-
- Well, yes, the names of any set of things created by an "enumeration"
- program muct be countable, by definition. But that's not what you
- originally claimed. You said:
-
- >For example the real numbers definable in any consistent formal system
- >are countable.
-
- By what sleight of hand did "definable" change into "enumerable"? Isn't
- that the old constructivist premise (or fallacy, as most of us think).
-