Re: Extrapolating linear ratios

Am Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:04:16 +0100 schrieb Herbert Newman:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:50:41 -0800 (PST) george wrote:


remember, no good deed goes unpunished!

How right you are!


ZFC, ... claiming that its sets can be about "everything", ...

It doesn't claim that. It claims: "Everything is a set."

And that's true. Meaning: Everything _in its universe_ is a set!

You see, it can't be true _in general_ (i.e. universally). After all _you_
aren't a set, I guess. (Hence the quantifier "everything" refers to a
certain universe here, in the given context, ZFC, to the universe of ZFC.)

PLEEEZE, george, DON'T argue in favor a complete crackpot. (Btw, since WM
is not a theory, you know, but a person, it DOES make sense to claim that
he's a _complete_ crackpot, and it might even be true.)


Proof:

Define: set x :<-> x = x.

Then
Ax(set x)
"Everything is a set."
qed.


...there is no universal set.

So what? Since it's universe is not a member of its universe, it NEED NOT
be a set. Still everything there is (in the universe of ZFC, that is) is a
set.


Herb
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