Re: Cardinality question
- From: Robin Chapman <rjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:29:59 +0100
Robert Kolker wrote:
> Lester Zick wrote:
>>
>> Then why are you trying to defend the fiction of a "real number line"?
>
> I am not defending it. I pointed out (if you are capable reading
> English)
You still pointed it out (even though he isn't capable of reading
English) :-)
> that the real number line is a heuristic and not logically
> required to develop the theory of real variables.
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