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Re: Matheology � 175
Posted:
Dec 10, 2012 11:54 AM
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"WM" <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote in message
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Matheology § 175
>Until then, no one envisioned the possibility that infinities come in
>different sizes, and moreover, mathematicians had no use for actual
>infinity. The arguments using infinity, including the Differential
>Calculus of Newton and Leibniz, do not require the use of infinite
>sets.
that is wrong.
>There are only countably many names.
Wrong. a name is simply a set of letters of any number.
>Conclusion: Infinities do not come come in different sizes.
wrong.
>In fact
>mathematicians have never had use for actual infinity because they
>could not.
wrong.
>All they could is to believe that they had use for actual
>infinity, i. e., for numbers that have no names and cannot be used.
wrong.
>That's called mathelogy.
wrong, you theory is called the deceiver.
>Regards, WM
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