Re: Cantor's diagonal proof wrong?

From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (spamtrap_at_library.lspace.org.invalid)
Date: 01/10/05 

Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:13:00 -0500

In <1105366233.590206.159560@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, on
01/10/2005
   at 06:10 AM, mueckenh@rz.fh-augsburg.de said:

>What is "possible existence"? Can anybody read them or not? Of
>course, many different numbers do possibly exist. But simultaneous
>use can be made of less than 2^10^100 only. And no string with more
>than 2^10^100 digits can ever be set up, in a mind, in a computer or
>elsewhere.

Does the center of the Earth exist? I'm not aware of any way that you
can observe it, even in principle.

>But it cannot be excluded, that you books meanwhile are elsewhere or
>nowhere.

It cannot be excluded that the entire Universe is an hallucination,
and therefor no argument based on the observed behavior of the
Universe has a logical basis.

>The diamond's existence has material roots.

How do you know? You can't observe it.

>A number has nothing to prove existence,

You have nothing to prove existence; you could be an hallucination, or
the articles that I am reading could be written from somebody else.

>Include brackets, curly brackets (perhaps the book is on set theory,
>numbers, and you will need more than 35.

The question is not whether there are more than 35 symbols, but rather
how many strings of a give length are texts; natural languages have
grammars that exclude some strings, as does the nomenclature of
Mathematics.

Of course, you could also claim that texts don't exist. 

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