Virgil
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Re: Matheology � 210
Posted:
Feb 7, 2013 7:46 PM
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In article
<429bf08a-12bb-4798-b221-2126474e0296@y9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> On 7 Feb., 20:35, William Hughes <wpihug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Feb 7, 8:27 pm, WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
> >
> > > The list if defined, would have a defined anti-diagonal.
> >
> > Ah. Richard's paradox. From Wikipedia
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> > Thus the resolution of Richard's paradox is that there
> > is no way to unambiguously determine exactly which
> > English sentences are definitions of real numbers
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> Only a defined list can have a defined antidiagonal.
> It is Cantor's paradox that the reals are believed to be uncountable.
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> His defined lists produce defined, hence countable, reals.
> His undefined lists produce nothing - but matheologians.
Cantor's work has produced the ill in Wolkenmuekenheim, to the eternal
deteriment of both mathematics and logic.
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