Re: Corrective interpretation of real numbers

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Date: 01/27/05

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 08:31:58 -0800

In article <41F8930F.6090309@et.uni-magdeburg.de>,
Eckard Blumschein <blumschein@et.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:

> but rather for something fundamentally different from Peirce¹s
> description: ³A continuum is precisely that every part of which has
> parts².

That characterization fails to distinguish between the reals and the
rationals, for example.

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