fom
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Re: Matheology § 214
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Feb 11, 2013 12:20 AM
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On 2/10/2013 6:17 PM, Virgil wrote:
> In article <fLmdnTlTk_rFu4XMnZ2dnUVZ_vWdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> fom <fomJUNK@nyms.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2/10/2013 3:55 PM, Virgil wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <b96a20cb-7991-4a49-84ca-6bd6585012c7@w7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
>>> WM <mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10 Feb., 21:45, fom <fomJ...@nyms.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 2/10/2013 3:38 AM, WM wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The relationship of the axiom of choice with
>>>>> the semantics of identity is the source of its
>>>>> particular set of issues.
>>>>>
>>>>> {{In fact it is true for existing sets
>>>>>
>>>>> Please explain "existing set".
>>>>
>>>> An existing set is a set that is finite or potentially infinite.
>>>
>>> That would require all of them to already exist, implying that no new
>>> ones could ever be created, or invented, or discovered.
>>>
>>> Thus in WMYTHEOLOGY there can never be anything new.
>>>
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>> What would be the consequence of that invariance?
>>
>> Every potentially infinite set already exists.
>
> But none of them are, or ever can become, infinite.
>
Which returns to the question of why he uses a
definite article to refer to the plural multiplicity
of diagonals...
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