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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Subject: Re: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.230633.12855@galois.mit.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 23:06:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.002703.5865@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >In article <368@mtnmath.UUCP> paul@mtnmath.UUCP (Paul Budnik) writes:
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- >>The discussion on L-S has apparently misled you. I believe that the
- >>space-time manifold is discrete, i. e. not continuous. There are many
- >>ways to discriminate between a continuous and discrete model and this
- >>has nothing to do with countability.
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- >So why this raging debate about how many reals, then?
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- Typically, issues which have no practical significance generate more
- raging debates on sci.physics than those which do.
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