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Topic: The Diagonal Argument
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Virgil

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Re: The Diagonal Argument
Posted: Dec 26, 2012 1:24 AM
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<d3f482bd-8a6f-40e3-8d5e-7f2474390211@t6g2000pba.googlegroups.com>,
Graham Cooper <grahamcooper7@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Diagonal Argument goes like so:
>
> IF you have as many digit positions as numbers
> THEN you can alter 1 digit of every number
> TO create a new number
>
> But it fails because with Infinite Sets of Reals
> You can alter the Number Order
> To change the digit back!

But once something has happened, and it has, changing things back does
not make it never have happened.
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