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Re: Mathelogy S 011
Posted:
May 19, 2012 7:31 AM
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WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> writes:
> On 19 Mai, 05:06, "Jesse F. Hughes" <je...@phiwumbda.org> wrote:
>> WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> writes:
>> > On 19 Mai, 00:12, William Hughes <wpihug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On May 18, 2:47 am, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
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>> >> > In article
>> >> > <27c05ba8-ddbb-4a04-b7c4-fbf16ee94...@d6g2000vbe.googlegroups.com>,
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>> >> > WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
>> >> > > God knows a list of all natural numbers [*].
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>> >> > Anyone who uses a claimed "God" to justify his mathematics is far more
>> >> > priest than mathematician.
>> >> > --
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>> >> Well, the use of the term "God" is harmless. I often talk
>> >> about "God's Algorithm" to refer to a desirable but impractical
>> >> way to a result. No theism is implied.
>>
>> > But Cantor's finished infinity and list of all reals implies theism.
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> Sure it does.
>>
>> Tell you what. Let's change the subject ever so slightly. Let's talk
>> about theorems of ZFC.
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> ZFC: There are countably many rationals and uncountably many
> irrationals in (0, 1).
>
> Now cover every rational with an interval, namely the n-th rational
> q_n with an interval of measure 10^-n. Then you cover 1/9 (or less) of
> the unit interval with aleph_0 intervals. In the remaining 8/9 (or
> more) there are uncountably many irrationals. But every two
> irrationals have a rational between each other. That implies in the
> present example, they have even a finite interval between each other,
> because there are no rationals outside of intervals. So we have
> uncountably many irrationals separated by countably many rationals.
> Contradiction.
Well, so much for talking about theorems of ZFC, eh?
> Usually there is some blathering about "Cantor-dust" in the reply. But
> even elements of Cantor-dust must be separated by intervals around
> rational numbers.
Quite right. You've proved ZFC is inconsistent and them mean ol'
mathematicians ignore you. My, oh my!
--
"I told her that I loved her.
She said she loved me too.
Neither one was lying,
Yet it wasn't true." -- Del McCoury Band
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