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Topic: a formal construction of Dedekind cuts
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Charlie-Boo

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Re: a formal construction of Dedekind cuts
Posted: Feb 23, 2013 7:00 AM
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On Feb 22, 9:55 am, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
<spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid> wrote:
> In <M5qdncGgG5a-VbvMnZ2dnUVZ_rCdn...@giganews.com>, on 02/21/2013
>    at 07:21 PM, fom <fomJ...@nyms.net> said:
>
> >This is a formal construction.
>
> No; it's full of undefined terms.
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He meant "This is a format construction." He shows that the format
used in set theory consists of braces.

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