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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Lowneheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- In-Reply-To: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu's message of 23 Nov 92 01:44:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Nov23095625@isis.sics.se>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Nov17.124233.24312@oracorp.com> <1992Nov20.220424.22979@galois.mit.edu>
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- <1992Nov23.014417.14551@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:56:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.014417.14551@galois.mit.edu> jbaez@riesz.mit.edu
- (John C. Baez) writes:
-
- >What do you mean by the "physics of the real numbers".
-
- Nothing in particular. I merely assumed that articles in sci.physics about
- the real numbers deals with the physics of the real numbers.
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- >I didn't mean anything in particular by "using".
-
- Right.
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- >My whole point was that you can go do whatever the heck you please with
- >models of an axiom system but that it will not affect what theorems can
- >be proved in the axiom system.
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- I submit that this doesn't mean anything in particular either.
-