Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Albert (albertwagner_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 17:10:40 -0600

Neil W Rickert wrote:
> "Allan C Cybulskie" <allan.c.cybulskie@yahoo.ca> writes:
>
>
>>This again. As I said to Stephen, you are attaching subset to my
>>analysis -- which I never claimed -- and then arguing that I'm assuming that
>>the sets are not equal because one is a subset of another. But that is not
>>what I am doing. Using the same sort of method as I used for (0,1) and
>>(0,2), I conclude that the set of octal numbers (not strings representing
>>octal numbers)representing all integers and the set of binary numbers
>>representing all integers have precisely the same size, but they are not
>>subsets of each other.
>
>
> In that case you are confused.
>
> For starters, there are no such things as "octal numbers". We
> normally use that terminology loosely, referring to strings
> representing numbers, but you have excluded representing strings from
> what you are discussing. But there is nothing octal about the
> numbers. The "octal" is a property of the string representation,
> not a property of the number.
>
> Your "method" of determining more is ill defined and idiosyncratic.
> It leads to inconsistency.
>
>
>>BUT EVEN IF IT WERE TRUE, then the most you could say about me is that I'm
>>using a different definition of "more" than the mathematicians are in this
>>thread,
>
>
> That is to say, you are deliberatly miscommunicating.

How peculiar. That is *exactly* the charge that I and other
non-mathematicians bring against mathematicians. In that common
usage essentially means what most people mean by a word, it would
seem 'uncommon' is the appropriate word for mathematical usage. 

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