Re: Update: Objections to Cantor's Theory

George wrote:

>Mathematics is ALL science fiction.
>It's about WHAT IF *this* were axiomatically true?

That's not the way it is viewed by people who apply mathematics.
That's not the way it is viewed by the anti-Cantorians. It's not the
way it was viewed before formal set theory came on the scene.

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