Re: abundance of irrationals!)


mueck...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Virgil wrote:
> > The definition of 'cardinality' is an equivalence class under the
> > equivalence relation of being in one to one correspondence (having
a
> > bijection from one to the other).
> >
> > Thus any set has a well defined cardinality.
> >
> Obviously this is a meaningless and self-contradictive definition,
> which easily cshould be abandoned because it (and the actual
existence
> of any infinite set) does not follow from any axiom.

A classic example of what I just wrote about a minute
ago. Mueck doesn't understand it, therefore it's
meaningless.

- Randy

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