On Sunday, December 30, 2012 12:57:05 PM UTC-8, Ross A. Finlayson wrote: > Draw the line, Cantor shows is it's point-to-point, not the stippling > of the stellation, our complete ordered field as structure above the > continuum follows from simpler principles (of points that make space).
You've used this language before. Isn't the assertion of countability a claim about stippling rather than drawing a line? I would not try to count the reals in numeric order for any interval containing more than one entry.