Re: The Difference between a Set and an Element


Nam D. Nguyen wrote:
technical speaking is not a technical question: one is in the abstract
domain of formalism; the other in the realm of Reality. Attempting to answer
them via informality (as you seem to have) could lead in the end to the
inconsistent deductions.

So what? In the end of the day we still have a world to understand.
What good are the formalisms if we can't relate them to the real
world?

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