Virgil
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Re: Matheology 203
Posted:
Feb 7, 2013 2:53 AM
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In article
<457d0429-33c1-46ad-9151-4f5d9dc96a8e@fv9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> On 7 Feb., 05:21, fom <fomJ...@nyms.net> wrote:
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> > Or as Virgil would write
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> in a very lucid moment:
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> > What Cantor proved was that no list of accessible real numbers
> > (accessible because listable) can include all accessible numbers,
> > because any such list itself proves the existence of numbers not listed.
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> That is, Cantor proved the countable set of accessible numbers being
> uncoutable.
That may well be WM's misunderstanding but it is not an understanding.
A number being accessible does means that it can appear in some list,
but does not at all mean that all accessible numbers can appear together
in a single list. For that to hold one must first be sucked into
WMytheology.
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