Re: YOU IGNORAMUSES ACTUAL:LY BELIEVE THIS ?

From: Will Twentyman (wtwentyman_at_read.my.sig)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:41:15 -0500

|-|erc wrote:

> "Will Twentyman" <wtwentyman@read.my.sig> wrote in > >
>
>>>>>That's not a list. You have NO possible meaning for REACH INFINITY
>>>>>so your proof was a disproof of a self contradictory statement, your proof is equal to {}.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't know if you realise that and you're playing maths or you really are thick.
>>>>
>>>>That is the meaning I associate with "reach infinity". It is the same
>>>>meaning that is used to "reach" w and then proceed on to w+1, w+2, w+3,
>>>>etc. It is related to the idea of transfinite induction. I know I did
>>>>not give a list in the standard sense, but I won't claim that it is, either.
>>>
>>>Then you did NOT prove you cannot reach infinity if you cannot define the terms.
>>>You balked at the start, prove "not reach infinity", everything that follows is waste.
>>
>>You asked for an example, not a definition. If you would like me to
>>define the term, I can work on that, too. The definition will include
>>the fact that you cannot "reach" it by a finite number of steps, or have
>>that result as an immediate consequence.
>>
>
>
> Can a bar reach infinitely to the right over the digits of this sequence ?
> There are no restrictions.
>
> < 1 2 3 4 5 6 .. >

If you are moving one digit at a time, no. There is a "leap" to "reach"
infinitely to the right. 

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Will Twentyman
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