Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Allan C Cybulskie (allan.c.cybulskie_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 03/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 18:23:53 -0500

"robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:3a9aiuF69hi1lU1@individual.net...
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> Allan C Cybulskie wrote:
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> > You cannot take "relative number" out of the phrase "relative number of
> > elements". What the phrase means as a whole is the number of elements
in
> > the sets relative to each other's number of elements, even if the exact
> > number of elements is not known/knowable (ie that whatever the number of
> > elements in the one set is, the other set has a constant number relative
to
> > that).
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> What does the phrase "relative to each other's number of elements" mean?

For any N, the number of elements in one will be X while the other will be X
+ another number.

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