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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Non-Standard Analysis and philosophy
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.93Jan21223508@bast.sics.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:35:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.180359.21766@ulrik.uio.no> <TORKEL.93Jan21204806@bast.sics.se>
- <1993Jan21.203027.27202@ulrik.uio.no>
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- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
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- In-Reply-To: solan@smaug.uio.no's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:30:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.203027.27202@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no
- (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
-
- >Surely finitist mathematicians will not
- >allow for infinitely large integers.
-
- Your question then was not about the possibility of the existing
- field of non-standard analysis, but whether a version of non-standard
- analysis has been developed within constructive mathematics.
-