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Re: Matheology § 246
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Apr 14, 2013 3:29 AM
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On 13 Apr., 21:58, Dan <dan.ms.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In all honesty, it's easier to teach these things to a five-year > old .
Of course, in particular if you teach him about Santa Claus and his red nosed reindeer. He may be willing to accept that the matrix
1 2,1 3,2,1 ...
contains |N in every column, but in no line, although it is clear that bothing can be in a column, unless it is in a line - together with all its predecessors.
The union of all natural numbers is |N. Already the sequence 1, 2, 3, ... contains an entry *for all n*. Also {1}, {2}, {3}, ... as well as its union contain all natural numbers, the union being |N. The union over all FISONs {1} U {1, 2} U {1, 2, 3} U ... is |N too. Somehow this union manages to contain more than all FISONs contain, because all n are in the union but not all n are in the FISONs.
All this can be taught to a five-year-old and not too bright child. But how can it be that thousands of matheologians, who successfully spread the impression of being intelligent and committed to logic, believe in such self-contradictory trash?
Regards, WM
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