Re: Extrapolating linear ratios

On Dec 19, 9:51 am, WM <mueck...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
. "There exists a set" is not
sufficient to conclude that that set has a cardinal number that is in
trichotomy with natural numbers.

Cantor's Theorem is a theorem OF SET theory!
In that context, EVERYTHING is a set!
INCLUDING NUMBERS!
Since numbers ARE sets, "there exists a set" IS
sufficient to conclude that that set has a cardinal number,
especially if that set *IS* a cardinal number!

Under this paradigm, EVERYTHING, INCLUDING CARDINAL NUMBERS,
is REPRESENTED or ENCODED as a set. In particular, every set
representing a cardinal number simply IS its own cardinality.
.

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