Re: About pii and integers

From: David Kastrup (dak_at_gnu.org)
Date: 10/04/04 

Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 16:01:22 +0200

Will Twentyman <wtwentyman@read.my.sig> writes:

> There is nothing inconsistent about working with a set such as
> {1,2,3,4}. However, such a set is *not* the natural numbers. The
> point of the Peano Axioms is to construct the natural numbers, not a
> subset of the natural numbers.

Wrong. The point of the Peano axioms is to _define_ the natural
numbers. There is no "construction" implied anywhere, nor the
possibility of it. 

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum