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Re: Matheology § 214
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Feb 11, 2013 3:55 AM
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On 2/11/2013 2:43 AM, WM wrote:
> On 11 Feb., 08:48, Virgil <vir...@ligriv.com> wrote:
>> In article
>> <b96a20cb-7991-4a49-84ca-6bd658501...@w7g2000yqo.googlegroups.com>,
>> WM <mueck...@rz.fh-augsburg.de> wrote:
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>>>> Every potentially infinite set already exists.
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>>> But none of them are, or ever can become, infinite.
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> They cannot "become" actually infinite.
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>> Since such "sets" are neither finite nor not finite (infinite), they are
>> nonexistent.
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>> And in van Dalen, p 118, a letter from Brouwer summarising his thesis:
>> "I can formulate:
>> 1. Actual infinite sets can be created mathematically"
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> As I already mentioned, that is due to an understandable error. At
> that time mathematicians were drilled to understand by the finite
> expression "0.111..." an actually infinite sequence of digits. That is
> wrong.
Right and wrong....
What, in modern mathematics, happened to change that
situation?
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