Re: Cantor's diagonal proof wrong?

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:47:27 -0500

In <20041120152922.689$NO@newsreader.com>, on 11/20/2004
   at 08:29 PM, curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) said:

>I've put forth a lot of evidence,

No, other than the evidence that you are confused.

>It simply shows that any argument that takes the form of the
>diagonal argument to prove that a value can not be in an infinite
>table is invalid.

No. It shows that you don't understand what the claims are that you
are disputing. It shows that you can shoot done a straw dummy of your
own devising, one that has nothing to do with the Cantor diagonal
argument.

>open their minds

PKB.

You are he one with a closed mind, insisting that you are right even
though you admit to not understanding the subject.

>The trick to this problem is that it's a matter of faith.

No. It's a matter of understanding the vocabulary and of not trying to
change the meanings of words midstream. It's a matter of making
precise distinctions, and not treating two phrases as identical just
because they have some words in common.

>any single piece of evidence

You presented none. You confused a sequence with its irrelevant
subsequences.

>What we do know however, is that any infinite processes you specify

You are the only one specifying an infinite process. 

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